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Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance after Large-Scale Privatization

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2004

We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy. Using specifications based on first-differences and unique instrumental variables, we find that few types of private ownership improve dynamic...

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Transfer Technology Across Borders? A Reexamination

Bitzer, Jürgen; Kerekes, Monika - EconWPA - 2005

Reexamining foreign direct investment (FDI) as a potential channel for knowledge diffusion -- based on industry data from seventeen OECD countries during the period 1973-2000 -- we find that FDI-receiving countries benefit strongly from FDI-related knowledge spillovers. We do not find evidence...

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Exports, Foreign Direct Investment, and Productivity: Evidence from German Firm Level Data

Wagner, Joachim - EconWPA - 2005

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

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The impact of FDI on industry performance

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger - EconWPA - 2005

This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and … country level data for 17 OECD countries. The paper relates to a large recent literature on productivity spillovers from … inward FDI, however, we also consider the relationship between productivity and outward FDI in the same estimation. Our …

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Innovation, Market Structure and Economic Growth

Palma, Nuno Pedro Gonçalves - EconWPA - 2004

constrain this structure in a given market are the rate of scientific (basic) discoveries that permit innovation productivity …

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Spinoffs, Privatization and Corporate Performance in Emerging Markets

Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evzen; Svejnar, Jan - EconWPA - 2004

We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of spinoffs and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes spinoffs almost exclusively in advanced economies, we control for accompanying ownership changes and the...

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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatization

Kocenda, Evzen - EconWPA - 2002

This paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996 - 1999. It analyzes the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and steadily increased. The single largest...

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Broadband: Europe needs more than DSL

Heng, Stefan - EconWPA - 2005

Efficient broadband technologies such as DSL, fibre, cable modem, powerline communications, UMTS, WLAN or WiMax are powerful locational factors for an economy. Europe in particular should promote broadband communication further to tap into its growth potential. But given the prevailing ownership...

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Export variety and economic growth in East European transition economies

Funke, Michael; Ruhwedel, Ralf - EconWPA - 2003

Utilising panel data for 14 East European transition economies, we find support for the hypothesis that a greater degree of export variety relative to the U.S. helps to explain relative per capita GDP levels. The empirical work relies upon some direct measures of product variety calculated from...

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SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF COMBRAINS

DR.VSR.SUBRAMANIAM - EconWPA - 2005

,Savings,Technology;Labour;Management Decision& Productivity Monitoring; and prediction&preparation for the impact of Intangible components in Development process …

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