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Do Foreign Owners Favor Short-Term Profit? Evidence from Germany

Dill, Verena; Jirjahn, Uwe; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, this paper finds that foreign-owned firms are more likely to focus on short-term profit. This influence is particularly strong if the local managers of the German subsidiary are not sent from the foreign parent company. Moreover, the...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Transition Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward...

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Globalization and Innovation in Emerging Markets

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging market economies to innovate and improve their competitive position. Using recent data on firms in 27 transition economies, we test for the effects of globalization through the impact of increased competition and...

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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country (i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger...

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Referral Incentives in Crowdfunding

Naroditskiy, Victor; Stein, Sebastian; Tonin, Mirco; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

place on a website set up to promote a fundraising drive by a large cancer research charity. Site visitors who choose to …

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Exploring the Nature of Loss Aversion

Johnson, Eric J.; Gächter, Simon; Herrmann, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Loss aversion, the fact that losses have a greater impact than gains, is a fundamental property of behavioral accounts of choice. In this paper, we suggest four possible characterizations of the relative impact of losses and gains: (1) It could be a constant, such as the much cited value of 2,...

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Demand Side Analysis of Microlending Markets in Germany

Kritikos, Alexander S.; Kneiding, Christoph; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In developing and transition economies, microlending has become an effective instrument for providing micro businesses with the necessary financial resources to launch operations. In the industrialized countries, with their highly developed banking systems, however, there has been ongoing debate...

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Neighbourhood Effects Research at a Crossroads: Ten Challenges for Future Research

van Ham, Maarten; Manley, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

moving the debate forward. In this paper, we present a set of ten challenges as a basis for a new research agenda which will …Neighbourhood effects research is at a crossroads since current theoretical and empirical approaches do not seem to be … give new direction to the neighbourhood effects debate. The ten challenges are: 1) Future work should concentrate on …

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Using Internet Data to Analyse the Labour Market: A Methodological Enquiry

Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Beblavy, Miroslav; Thum, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

With the growth of the Internet, online job portals have become an important medium for job matching. This paper focuses on methodological issues arising from the usage of online job vacancy data and voluntary web-based surveys to analyse the labour market. In addition to providing a...

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Self-Selection into Economics Experiments Is Driven by Monetary Rewards

Abeler, Johannes; Nosenzo, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Laboratory experiments have become a wide-spread tool in economic research. Yet, there is still doubt about how well … monetary reward associated with participation in experiments; or appealing to the importance of helping research; or both. We … help research has no effect on sign-up. We then invite the so-recruited subjects to the laboratory to measure a range of …

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