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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations: Unbundling Spatial Lags
Poelhekke, Steven; Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
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Off-Shoring and Productivity Growth in the Italian Manufacturing Industries
Daveri, Francesco; Jona-Lasinio, Cecilia - CESifo - 2008
We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring”) is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … manufacturing industries in 1995-2003. Our results indicate that the off-shoring of intermediates within the same industry (“narrow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005181530
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Unraveling the Fortunates of the Fortunate: An Iterative Bayesian Model Averaging (IBMA) Approach
Eicher, Theo; Papageorgiou, Chris; Röhn, Oliver - CESifo - 2007
inherent in growth regressions. IBMA is essential to our estimation because the simultaneous consideration of model uncertainty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094478
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Lisbon Agenda, Regional Innovation System and the New EU Cohesion Policy
Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - CESifo - 2011
The EU’s cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and employment. In this context, the promotion of a concept called regional innovation system has recently become important in the EU for guaranteeing long-term regional economic growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293488
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The Determinants of Economic Growth in European Regions
Crespo-Cuaresma, Jesús; Doppelhofer, Gernot; … - CESifo - 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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Exchange Rate Regime and Wage Determination in Central and Eastern Europe
Schnabl, Gunther; Ziegler, Christina - CESifo - 2008
After the eastern enlargement of the European Union due to increasing labor market integration, wage determination and monetary integration in Central and Eastern Europe have become key issues in European economic policy making. Based on the Scandinavian model of wage adjustment by Lindbeck...
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Is the Relationship between Financial Development and Economic Growth Monotonic? Evidence from a Sample of Middle Income Countries
Samargandi, Nahla; Fidrmuc, Jan; Ghosh, Sugata - CESifo - 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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Regional Policy Evaluation: Interactive Fixed Effects and Synthetic Control
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry - CESifo - 2014
estimation methods in small samples. As an empirical illustration, we also apply them to the evaluation of the impact on local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082836
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FDI Determination and Corporate Tax Competition in a Volatile World
Ghinamo, Mauro; Panteghini, Paolo; Revelli, Federico - CESifo - 2007
This paper investigates the role of economic and political volatility in the process of corporate tax-rate determination. The article is based on a theoretical framework that allows for the ability of multinational firms to choose the optimal timing of foreign investment and to shift profits by...
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Horizontal versus Vertical Interdependence in Multinational Activity
Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2008
Recent research in international economics highlights the role of interdependencies of investment decisions and sales of multinational firms. Previous work focused on and provided evidence for aggregate flows or stocks of foreign direct investment, showing that interdependence declines in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196195