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Can investments in emerging markets help to solve the aging problem?
Holzmann, Robert - 2000
Prefunding of pension commitments in OECD economies is increasingly seen as a central strategy to cope with the aging of their populations. This paper argues that investments in emerging markets can help at the margin but are unable to solve the demographic problem. While these investments bring...
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The economics of a multilateral investment agreement
Che, Jiahua; Willmann, Gerald - 2009
This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
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Uncertain productivity growth and the choice between FDI and export
Yalcin, Erdal - 2009
The underlying model analyzes the first time foreign market entry decision of a representative investor who can choose between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology and sheds light on the effects of productivity...
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Managerial job assignment and imperfect competition in asymmetric equilibrium
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...
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Firm size and diversification : asymmetric multiproduct firms under Cournot competition
Grossmann, Volker - 2003
A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...
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Selling reputation when going out of business : presented at CEFifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation, March 2004
Hakenes, Hendrik; Peitz, Martin - CESifo Area Conference on Industrial Organisation … - 2004
Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable? We consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms on sale. Customers are...
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Regional growth and unemployment in the medium run : asymmetric cointegrated Okun's Law for UK regions
Palombi, Silvia; Perman, Roger; Tavéra, Christophe - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 55/57, pp. 6228-6238
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The empirics of China's outward direct investment
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Qian, Xingwang - 2009
We investigate the empirical determinants of China's outward direct investment (ODI). It is found that China … developed and developing countries, there is evidence that a) both market seeking and resources seeking motives drive China …'s ODI, b) the Chinese exports to developing countries induce China's ODI, c) China's international reserves promote its ODI …
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China's outward FDI : an industry-level analysis of host country determinants
Amighini, Alessia; Rabellotti, Roberta; Sanfilippo, Marco - 2011
motivations are relevant for both manufacturing and services. -- China ; foreign direct investment ; internationalization ; trade …
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