What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?

The objective of this paper is to examine how the driving forces of investment in a small country like Iceland differ from those in larger countries. Special attention is given to the dominating investment sector in Iceland due to its resource intensity. Estimates are based on 1989-1999 panel data o...

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Main Author: Kristjánsdóttir, Helga
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU) 2005
Subjects:
ddc:330
F21
F23
foreign direct investment
multinational corporations
Direktinvestition
Schätzung
Multinationales Unternehmen
Insel
Iceland
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82023
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spelling ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/82023 2024-01-28T10:06:34+01:00 What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland? Kristjánsdóttir, Helga 2005 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82023 eng eng Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU) Series: EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2005-08 gbv-ppn:49788867X http://hdl.handle.net/10419/82023 RePEc:kud:epruwp:05-08 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 F21 F23 foreign direct investment multinational corporations Direktinvestition Schätzung Multinationales Unternehmen Insel doc-type:workingPaper 2005 ftzbwkiel 2024-01-01T00:44:14Z The objective of this paper is to examine how the driving forces of investment in a small country like Iceland differ from those in larger countries. Special attention is given to the dominating investment sector in Iceland due to its resource intensity. Estimates are based on 1989-1999 panel data on foreign direct investment in various sectors. This may help explain why the investment pattern in Iceland differs from the general case. Report Iceland EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW)
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F23
foreign direct investment
multinational corporations
Direktinvestition
Schätzung
Multinationales Unternehmen
Insel
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F21
F23
foreign direct investment
multinational corporations
Direktinvestition
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Multinationales Unternehmen
Insel
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What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
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F23
foreign direct investment
multinational corporations
Direktinvestition
Schätzung
Multinationales Unternehmen
Insel
description The objective of this paper is to examine how the driving forces of investment in a small country like Iceland differ from those in larger countries. Special attention is given to the dominating investment sector in Iceland due to its resource intensity. Estimates are based on 1989-1999 panel data on foreign direct investment in various sectors. This may help explain why the investment pattern in Iceland differs from the general case.
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title What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
title_short What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
title_full What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
title_fullStr What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
title_full_unstemmed What Drives Sector Allocation of Foreign Direct Investment in Iceland?
title_sort what drives sector allocation of foreign direct investment in iceland?
publisher Copenhagen: University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU)
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