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International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. Using a unique data set of approximately 24 million firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has...

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The Politics and Economics of Offshore Outsourcing

Mankiw, N. Gregory; Swagel, Phillip - American Enterprise Institute - 2009

offshoring and international trade. …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …

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Internationalization and Innovation of Firms: Evidence and Policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal?

Alfaro, Laura; Charlton, Andrew - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

In this paper we distinguish different "qualities" of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project...

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