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Multinational Corporations and Spillovers

Blomström, Magnus; Kokko, Ari - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper examines spillover effects of the activities of multinational firms (MNCs). Such effects are most likely to be found in host countries, where the operations of foreign multinationals may influence local firms in the MNC’s own industry as well as firms in other industries. There is...

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Avenues of Technology Transfer: Foreign Investment and Productivity Change in the Czech Republic

Djankov, Simeon; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Firm-level data for the Czech Republic during 1992–6 suggest that foreign investment has tended to flow to firms of above average size, initial profitability and initial labour productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find that foreign investment has a positive, but...

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Knowledge Diffusion, Supplier's Technological Effort and Technology Transfer via Vertical Relationships

Goh, Ai Ting - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper studies the effect of knowledge diffusion on the incentives for developed countries’ (DC) firms to undertake costly transfer of production knowledge of an input to their developing countries’ (LDC) suppliers whose costs of production vary inversely with their technological effort....

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On the Distribution of Income and Worker Assignment under Intra-Firm Spillovers, with an Application to Ideas And Networks

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We study the earnings structure and the equilibrium assignment of workers when they exert intra-firm spillovers on each other. We allow for arbitrary spillovers provided output depends on some aggregate index of workers' skill. Despite the possibility of increasing returns to skills, equilibrium...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom; where within a given occupation it may harm some workers while...

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The Dynamics of Exclusion and Fiscal Conservatism

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the bottom portion of income distribution. It is argued that, contrary to what is generally assumed in the economic literature, inequality will then be associated with less, rather...

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The Distributional Consequences of Russia's Transition

Doyle, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

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Openness, Inequality and Poverty: Endowments Matter

de Melo, Jaime; Gourdon, Julien; Maystre, Nicolas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Using tariffs as a measure of openness, this paper finds consistent evidence that the conditional effects of trade liberalization on inequality are correlated with relative factor endowments. Trade liberalization is associated with increases in inequality in countries well-endowed in highly...

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Structural Adjustment, Macroeconomic Adjustment and Poverty: A Methodology for Analysis

Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

estimates of the impact of adjustment on poverty using household income and expenditure surveys currently available in LDCs. It … proposes the use of decomposable poverty indices as a tractable vehicle for calculating the impact of adjustment on overall … poverty. This framework does require, however, reasonably disaggregated data on income distribution. …

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Globalization and Democracy

Hamilton, Carl B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and … accountability, and (iii) the role of inter-governmental (undemocratic) international institutions like the World Bank with regard to … democracy and globalization. A major part deals with the question of whether globalization enhances democracy. The answer is …

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