The Ease of Doing Business Index as a tool for investment location decisions

Pinheiro-Alves, Ricardo; Zambujal-Oliveira, João

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2012.04.026

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“…The business regulation has a significant effect on the inward and outward flow of foreign direct investment (Jovanovic & Jovanovic, 2018;Morris & Aziz, 2011;Corcoran & Gillanders, 2015;Piwonski, 2010). Even the business regulation measure was recommended as a tool for selecting investment location as well as was associated with economic development (Ani, 2015;Pinheiro-Alves & Zambujal-Oliveira, 2012). Most of the studies on business regulation measures tried to assess the relations of the underlying variables of the index with international trade.…”

Section: Business Regulation and International Tradementioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the ways to study the quality and efficiency of regulatory practices is Ease of Doing Business, which evaluates the procedures for business initiative, receiving a building permit, gaining an electricity connection, shifting property, receiving access to credit, protecting minority investors, paying taxes, engaging in international trade, imposing contracts and solving bankruptcy (The World Bank Group, 2019). Earlier researches on business regulation focused on its impact on foreign direct investment and economy or assessed it as a tool for investment location decisions (Piwonski, 2010;Siddiqui & Ahmed, 2013;Pinheiro-Alves and Zambujal-Oliveira, 2012;Ani, 2015;Corcoran & Gillanders, 2015). Therefore, prior studies left a scope to study the relationship among the trios: public governance, business regulation, and international trade.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Effect of Governance on International Trade and the Mediating Role of Business Regulations

Khan

2020

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The purpose of the study is to investigate the mediating role of business regulations in between the relationship of governance and international trade. Data were collected from 181 countries and the partial least squares structural equation model (PLS-SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. It was found that the business regulations practiced by a country significantly influence its international trade, but the governance of the country has a significant indirect influence on its international trade. A full mediation was evident from the results, where the indirect effect of governance on international trade was observed to be fully mediated by business regulations. The study will contribute to guiding governments and regulatory bodies to improve governance and business regulatory environment to facilitate international trade.

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Section: Business Regulation and International Tradementioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Effect of Governance on International Trade and the Mediating Role of Business Regulations

Khan

2020

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“…For the aforementioned four components of social capital, it is between 0.577 and 0.776 (social network 0.762, social trust 0.577, social reciprocity 0.641, social participation 0.776). For the Cronbach's alpha, the ideal value is above 0.7 (Nunnaly ); however, in many cases it is still acceptable if it is above the cutoff point of 0.4 (McHorney et al ; Pinheiro‐Alves and Zambujal‐Oliveira ). Moreover, the approximate statistics value of

χ^{2}

in the Bartlett test being 1,263.146, the results of the Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin (KMO) test being 0.738, and the significant coefficients of Sig = 0.000 < 0.05 indicate a high reliability.…”

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Income Groups, Social Capital, and Collective Action on Small‐Scale Irrigation Facilities: A Multigroup Analysis Based on a Structural Equation Model

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This article examines whether relationships between social capital characteristics and the willingness of farmers to cooperate in collective action is moderated by the farmers' income level. We employed a structural equation model to analyze the influence of social capital components (social networks, interpersonal trust, social reciprocity, and social participation) on the willingness of farmers to cooperate in collective small‐scale irrigation in Guangling County, Shanxi Province of China. This analysis was complemented by a multigroup analysis to measure the potential variance effects across income groups. Our results show that low‐ and middle‐income farmers give more importance to the aspects of social networks, social reciprocity, and social participation, while high‐income farmers place emphasis on interpersonal trust and social participation. Accordingly, the willingness of farmers to cooperate for the different income groups was influenced in different ways in relation to the various social capital components. Therefore, social capital and income differences have complex effects on the willingness of farmers to cooperate. In this regard, our research provides an alternative way to understand the complex process involved in the formation of collective action under the presence of increasing economic heterogeneity in local communities.

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“…In this case, both political and economic freedom was taken into account. To evaluate the former, the World Press Freedom Index was used (Giannone, De Frutos, 2016;Nouinou et al, 2015); for the latter -Doing Business (Bednarova, Laboutkova, 2013;Pinheiro-Alves, Zambujal-Oliveira, 2012). The World Press Freedom Index is an indicator of a qualitative and quantitative nature.…”

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Differentiation of the Social Situation in European Post-Communist Countries

Michalski¹,

Wiskulski²

2018

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After 1989, the countries today called post-communist began a tedious process of systemic transformation. Its result is progressive differentiation of the situation in them. The aim of the study is to analyse social differentiation in these countries. This was done in three dimensions based on 6 indicators: civil liberties (World Press Freedom Index, Doing Business ranking), wealth, but depicted more comprehensively than just in economic terms (Legatum Prosperity Index, Social Progress Index), gender/sexual equality (Gender Development Index, Human Rights Situation of LGBTI). In the course of analysis, it was found that the best situation prevails in the countries which are currently members of the European Union (except for Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Romania) and the worst one is in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States plus Albania and Macedonia.

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The Ease of Doing Business Index as a tool for investment location decisions

Cited by 51 publications

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The Effect of Governance on International Trade and the Mediating Role of Business Regulations

The Effect of Governance on International Trade and the Mediating Role of Business Regulations

Income Groups, Social Capital, and Collective Action on Small‐Scale Irrigation Facilities: A Multigroup Analysis Based on a Structural Equation Model

Differentiation of the Social Situation in European Post-Communist Countries

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