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African Leaders: Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis is that foreign-educated leaders attract more FDI to their country …. Our rationale is that education obtained abroad encompasses a whole slew of factors that can make a difference in FDI … significant determinant of FDI inflows, beyond other standard characteristics. While intuitive, this result does not necessarily …

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Absorptive Capacities and the Impact of FDI on Economic Growth

Farkas, Beatrice - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

multinationals' entry and it consists of a unified study of absorptive capacities. We start from the idea that FDI speeds up the … FDI depends on the country specific absorptive capacity. We first interact FDI individually with different growth … determinants and we find that the contribution of FDI to economic growth is positive and significant depending on the level of …

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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...

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Spillovers from Foreign Firms through Worker Mobility: An Empirical Investigation

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from multinationals this literature treats the channels through which these spillover effects work as a black box. The innovation of this paper is to investigate whether spillovers occur via worker mobility. We use data...

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Goods Follow Bytes: The Impact of ICT on EU Trade

Mattes, Anselm; Meinen, Philipp; Pavel, Ferdinand - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012

This paper empirically assesses whether the deployment and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at the national level affects trade flows within the European Union (EU) and between the EU and its main trading partners. The analysis tests the hypothesis that...

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Scale-Free Networks in International Trade

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Brück, Tilman - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

The paper analyzes the network structure of international trade. Adapting a network approach developed in the physical sciences, we propose that international trade functions like a scale-free network. For each commodity group we calculate a characteristic parameter which reflects the structure...

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The Impact of a Customs Union between Turkey and the EU on Turkey's Exports to the EU

Danzinger, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann; Herzer, Dierk; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

This paper investigates Turkey's sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002. Turkey's sixteen most important export sectors are analysed. Emphasis is placed on the role of price competition, EU protection, and transport costs in the export trade between...

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Home Market and Traditional Effects on Comparative Advantage in a Gravity Approach

Schumacher, Dieter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Policy makers in "small" countries facing trade liberalisation have become concerned with the potential loss of manufacturing employment and output to "large" economies in the presence of economies of scale in production and international transport costs. This paper offers a methodology to...

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Volume and Comparative Advantage in East-West Trade

Schumacher, Dieter; Trübswetter, Parvati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

The volume and commodity structure of EU trade with the transition countries in central and eastern Europe (CEECs) is estimated on the assumption that it will follow the pattern of trade among market economies. A gravity-type approach at the level of product groups is used, combining geography...

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Market Size and Factor Endowment: Explaining Comparative Advantage in Bilateral Trade by Differences in Income and Per Capita Income

Schumacher, Dieter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

Using a gravity-type explanation of international trade flows at the industry level, it is shown that the pattern of comparative advantage in terms of sectoral export/import ratios in bilateral trade can be explained by relative income and relative per capita income. Total income of a country is...

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