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Forecasting Airport Passenger Flows Using Mobile Network Data: Insights for Sustainable Mobility and Strategic Infrastructure Planning

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Airports are strategic and environmental nodes in global transport systems where rapid passenger growth challenges capacity, sustainability, and resilience. This study uses anonymized mobile network data to analyze and forecast passenger dynamics at Lisbon Airport, Portugal, linking data‐driven insights to sustainable mobility and ...
João Carlos Ferreira   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automating Sustainability: How Climate Action Unlocks the ESG Potential of Industrial Robotics

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The convergence of Industry 4.0 and global sustainability goals presents a critical paradox: while automation drives efficiency, its net impact on comprehensive environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance remains contested. This study investigates the relationship between industrial robot and country‐level ESG performance across 63
Brahim Bergougui
wiley   +1 more source

Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]

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This two-volume original reference work provides a comprehensive overview of development economics and comprises contributions by some of the leading scholars working in the field. Authors are drawn from around the world and write on a wide range of topics.
Francisca Da Gama, Bruce Cronin
core   +5 more sources

Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment [PDF]

open access: possibleCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, 2014
AbstractEmpirical studies of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) activity show substantial differences in specifications with little agreement on the set of included covariates. We use Bayesian statistical techniques that allow one to select from a large set of candidates those variables most likely to be determinants of FDI activity.
Bruce A. Blonigen, Jeremy Piger
openaire   +2 more sources

Foreign direct investment

2018
Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics are commonly treated as unproblematic measures of the ‘true’ levels of cross-border investment flows. Through a dissection of the manifold measurement problems underlying standard FDI statistics, this chapter offers a different perspective on these numbers.
Anca M. Voicu   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Labor Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment* [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2008
AbstractIn this paper, we analyze the implications of the effective taxation of labor for profits and, hence, the decisions made by multinational enterprises concerning the location of their headquarters. If a higher employee‐borne tax burden reduces manager effort, it should also negatively affect firm profits and the location of the headquarters.
Peter Egger, Doina Radulescu
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Foreign Direct Investment in Ukraine

2023
The Ukrainian economy cannot ensure economic reconstruction after the war and needs new opportunities for its development. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is an important instrument that can help. FDI provides capital relevant for increasing the profitability of economic sectors.
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Foreign direct investment in China

Canadian Foreign Policy Journal, 2006
China has emerged as the most dynamic FDI‐host country in the world, and the impact of FDI on the Chinese economy has burgeoned in ways that no one anticipated. This paper focuses on four issues: (a) the factors behind the FDI boom; (b) how China has succeeded in utilizing FDI so far; (c) China's FDI strategy; and (d) its future development.
openaire   +1 more source

Foreign Direct Investment in Manufacturing

Journal of Political Economy, 1977
The purpose of this paper is to present a simple model, based on profit-maximizing behavior, that can be used to derive estimable equations for U.S. foreign direct investment in manufacturing. Our estimation of foreign-investment equations requires estimates of production functions for U.S. manufacturing subsidiaries abroad.
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