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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
catching up to the (world) efficiency standard given by foreign-owned firms; and the distance of the Russian firms to the … implementations of the Washington Consensus policies have thus not enabled domestic firms to start catching up to the world standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792168
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Trade Policies and Development: Some New Issues
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990
The 1980s have seen the beginnings of a change of heart among developing country policymakers, as the import-substitution consensus of the previous decade has all but evaporated. It is paradoxical that the 1980s should have become the decade of trade liberalization in LDCs, since this has also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281315
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Foreign Direct Investment and Trade Interlinkages in the 1990s: Experience and Prospects of Developing Countries
Katseli, Louka Tarsitsa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
The paper analyses global trends in foreign direct investment (FDI) and the interlinkages between FDI, trade and competitiveness in host developing countries. The rapid rate of growth and the recent changes in the global patterns of FDI are attributed to both macroeconomic and microeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114448
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Designing Carbon Taxation Schemes for Automobiles: A Simulation Exercise for Germany
Adamou, Adamos; Clerides, Sofronis; Zachariadis, Theodoros - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Vehicle taxation based on CO2 emissions is increasingly being adopted worldwide in order to shift consumer purchases to low-carbon cars, yet little is known about the effectiveness and overall economic impact of these schemes. We focus on feebate schemes, which impose a fee on high-carbon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084619
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Does Fertility Respond to Financial Incentives?
Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
There has been little empirical work evaluating the sensitivity of fertility to financial incentives at the household level. We put forward an identification strategy that relies on the fact that variation of wages induces variation in benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666789
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The Ethical Foundations of Population Policies
Dasgupta, Partha - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1984
of future population size. The essay begins with a summary of welfare economic theory as it pertains to situations where … population size is not subject to choice, and notes that a symmetry (or anonymity) axiom on social welfare functions has almost … invariably been invoked in the theory. It then summarizes optimum population theory and emphasizes that the existing theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666921
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Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect
Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
link the population of a country to a host of economic and social phenomena. Using both graphical and statistical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498014
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New Evidence on the Fertility Transition in Ireland 1880-1911
O'Gráda, Cormac - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
Recent analyses of Ireland's marital fertility transition based on the Princeton Ig and the Stanford CPA measures are reassessed. Revised county estimates of Ig are subjected to regression analysis, and added insight into CPA is offered by comparing Ireland with Scotland and applying the measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005281369
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Sources of Comparative Advantage in Polluting Industries
Broner, Fernando A; Bustos, Paula; Carvalho, Vasco M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We study the determinants of comparative advantage in polluting industries. We combine data on environmental policy at the country level with data on pollution intensity at the industry level to show that countries with laxer environmental regulation have a comparative advantage in polluting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083788
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Centralization and Accountability: Theory and Evidence from the Clean Air Act
Boffa, Federico; Piolatto, Amedeo; Ponzetto, Giacomo AM - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper studies fiscal federalism when regions differ in voters’ ability to monitor public officials. We develop a model of political agency in which rent-seeking politicians provide public goods to win support from heterogeneously informed voters. In equilibrium, voter information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084457