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Why is China Investing in Africa? Evidence from the Firm Level
Chen, Wenjie - 2016
China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … micro data. The aggregate data on China's ODI in African countries reveal that China's share of the stock of foreign …
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International Joint Ventures and Internal vs. External Technology Transfer : Evidence from China
Jiang, Kun - 2018
ventures in China from 1998 to 2007—roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world—we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures …
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The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions
Cuaresma, Jesús Crespo - 2009
We use Bayesian Model Averaging (BMA) to evaluate the robustness of determinants of economic growth in a new dataset of 255 European regions in the 1995-2005 period. We use three different specifications based on (1) the cross-section of regions, (2) the cross-section of regions with country...
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Ethnic Favoritism : An Axiom of Politics?
De Luca, Giacomo - 2015
We investigate the prevalence and determinants of ethnic favoritism, i.e., preferential public policies targeted at the political leader's ethnic group. We construct a panel dataset of 2,022 ethnographic regions from 139 countries with annual observations from 1992 to 2012, and use nighttime...
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Does Culture Cause Economic Development? A Reassessment of the Evidence from European Regions
Edwards, Jeremy - 2021
This paper shows that Tabellini’s recent claim to have provided evidence that culture has a causal effect on economic development is unjustified. Tabellini’s claim is based on an instrumental variables analysis in which two instruments are used to identify the supposed causal effect. One of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315830
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Growth Effects of Spatial Redistribution Policies
Arcalean, Calin - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
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Tariff Liberalization and Trade Integration of Emerging Countries
Luca d'Agliano, Centro Studi - 2013
We investigate how tariff liberalization has affected exporting in emerging countries. We use a highly disaggregated bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074397
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International Portfolio Flows and Exchange Rate Volatility for Emerging Markets
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2015
This paper investigates the effects of equity and bond portfolio inflows on exchange rate volatility, using monthly bilateral data for the US vis-a-vis eight Asian developing and emerging countries (India, Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines, and Taiwan) over...
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla - 2014
We revisit the relationship between financial development and economic growth in a panel of 52 middle income countries over the 1980-2008 period, using pooled mean group estimator in a dynamic heterogeneous panel setting. We show that financial development does not have a linear positive...
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Monetary Policy Rules in Emerging Countries : Is There an Augmented Nonlinear Taylor Rule?
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2016
This paper examines the Taylor rule in five emerging economies, namely Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Thailand, and Turkey. In particular, it investigates whether monetary policy in these countries can be more accurately described by (i) an augmented rule including the exchange rate, as well as...
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