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FDI and Spillover Effects in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry
Bergman, Annika - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
industry in India. A literature review, interviews and an econometric analysis are carried out in order to examine FDIs impact …
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Graduating to Globalisation : A Study of Southern Multinationals
Demirbas, Dilek; Patnaik, Ila; Shah, Ajay - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
probit models, examining two key hypotheses using firm level panel data from India. First, we test whether there are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363839
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Demographic Complementarities and Outsourcing : Implications and Challenges for India
Asher, Mukul G.; Nandy, Amarendu - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
argues that demographic complementarities with high-income countries provide India with one-time opportunity to sustain its … growth rate and occupy all segments of global outsourcing and offshoring activities. India has used the labor cost advantage … development, diversification and upgradation policies India can continue to atleast maintain its global market share, and help …
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Corporate Governance in Pakistan : Corporate Valuation, Ownership and Financing
Javid, Attiya Y.; Iqbal, Robina - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
In this study the relationship between corporate governance and corporate valuation, ownership structure and need of external financing for the Karachi Stock Market is examined for the period 2003 to 2008. To measure the firm- level governance a rating system is used to evaluate the stringency...
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The Impact of R&D and Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Growth in Emerging-Developing Countries : Evidence from Indian Manufacturing Industries
Adamou, Adamos; S, Subash - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper examines the impact of R&D and FDI on firm growth for a panel data of Indian manufacturing firms. We argue that besides age and size, FDI and R&D are essential determinants of firm growth. We use GMM estimation for fixed effects panel data models to control for endogenity of R&D and...
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What Matter for Child Development?
Huang, Fali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper estimates production functions of child cognitive and social development using a panel data of nine-year old children each with over two hundred home and school inputs as well as family background variables. A tree regression method is used to conduct estimation under various...
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Dynamic Treatment Effect Analysis of TV Effects on Child Cognitive Development
Huang, Fali; Lee, Myoung-jae - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
We investigate whether TV watching at ages 6-7 and 8-9 affects cognitive development measured by math and reading scores at ages 8-9 using a rich childhood longitudinal sample from NLSY79. Dynamic panel data models are estimated to handle the unobserved child-specific factor, endogeneity of TV...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365268
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Trade Regimes, Liberalization and Macroeconomic Instability in Africa
Dupasquier, Chantal; Osakwe, Patrick N. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
Trade policy has been a very contentious issue in the discourse on African development. Using panel data for 33 African countries spanning the period 1986-2000, we examine the relationship between trade liberalization and macroeconomic instability in Africa. We focus on instabilities in output,...
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Are the East Asian Currencies still Misaligned? An Analysis Based on Absolute PPP-Income Relationship using Panel Data
Motonishi, Taizo - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Over 10 years after the currency crisis, the degree of exchange rate misalignment is still an issue of contention for East Asian countries. This study evaluates the degrees of currency misalignment of Korea, China, Malaysia, Thailand, the Phillipines, and Indonesia by examining absolute...
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Financial Health and Firm Productivity : Firm-level Evidence from Viet Nam
Thangavelu, Shandre M.; Chongvilaivan, Aekapol - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Does financial health shore up firm productivity? This paper empirically investigates this question and presents productivity as another driving factor in translating financial development into real economic progress. Our empirical framework employs Levinsohn and Petrin’s (2003)...
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