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Determinants of Export Performance in the Philippine Manufacturing Sector
Ma. Teresa S. Dueñas-Caparas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
The paper determines the factors affecting the export performance of firms in three main manufacturing sectors in the Philippines. Specifically, firm-level characteristics like firm size, firm age and foreign affiliation are identified and statistically tested to determine if it affects a firms...
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Aggregate Productivity Growth in Indian Manufacturing : An Application of Domar Aggregation
Das, Deb Kusum; Kalita, Gunajit - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
Productivity growth in Indian manufacturing is an important driver of overall growth, yet the issues related to its measurement have still not been resolved. The issue of how to compute an aggregate productivity measure holds significance for two reasons : one, the productivity of a firm should...
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Industrializing West Bengal? The case of institutional stickiness
Chakravarty, Deepita; Bose, Indranil - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
While there is a clear policy shift towards large-scale industrialization in the state of West Bengal (WB) during the early 1990s, not much improvement can be discerned in the performance of the manufacturing output. Moreover, contrary to the Indian experience, more than half of the...
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Impact of Trade on Employment Generation in Manufacturing in India
Goldar, Bishwanath - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
Analysing the impact of trade on manufacturing employment in India, it is found that exports had a favourable effect on …
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Drivers of Academic Research and Patenting in India : Econometric Estimation of the Research Production Function
Ray, Amit Shovon; Saha, Sabyasachi - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
India. Academic research is conceptualised as a research production process where research inputs (like research time and …. Our results clearly identify several drivers of academic research and patenting in India, in terms of faculty background … India. In particular, we argue that putting in place institutional structures will not serve the purpose without addressing …
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The Case of the Errant Executive : Management, Control and Firm Size in Corporate Cheating
Guha, Brishti - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
Firm insiders a manager and a board face moral hazard in relation to their outside shareholders in a repeated game with asymmetric information and stochastic market outcomes. The manager determines whether or not outsiders are cheated; the board, whose objectives differ from those of outside...
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A New Context for Managing Overseas Direct Investment by Chinese State Owned Enterprises
Liao, Shuping; Zhang, Yongsheng - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2013
Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and their overseas direct investment (ODI) have played an important role in China's economic development. But the rapid expansion of SOE-dominated ODI has also raised concerns, including about state capitalism and the need for competitive neutrality. This...
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Indian Innovation Systems and Emergence of Biopharmaceutical Sector : Issues and Prospects
Chaturvedi, Sachin - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
The prospective entry of generic dominated Indian pharmaceutical sector in the ambit of new technologies is likely to give filip to emergence of strong biopharmaceutical sector.It is pertinent in this context to draw a policy roadmap which takes into account sectoral dynamics and draws upon...
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Who Uses the Patent System in Developing Countries? A Study of Patent Propensities in Argentina, 1992-2001
Andre’Âs Lo’Âpez; Orlicki, Eugenia - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper aims at studying the determinants of the patent behavior of Argentinean manufacturing firms. In particular, we seek to identify the factors that affect the probability of obtaining a patent and the determinants of the number of patents granted. We include industry fixed effects and...
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THE CHANGING CLIMATE FOR FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INTO JAPAN
Drysdale, Peter; Naito, Toshi; Trewin, Ray; Wilson, Dominic - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 1999
Japans prolonged recession over the last five years has provided the impetus for regulatory reform and industry restructuring. Historically, the flow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Japan has been small for an economy of its size. The high degree of vertical integration and relatively...
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