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Trade, Southern Integration, and Uneven Development
Trofimov, G. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
The paper demonstrates how trade between developing countries can cause the divergence of long-run growth among these … trade occurs at any moment if the countries have different numbers of intermediate varieties. The country with a larger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670111
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Does FDI Work as a Channel for R&D Spillovers? Evidence Based on Swedish Data
Braconier, Henrik; Ekholm, Karolina; Knarvik, Midelfart; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
R&D spillovers as well. This paper analyzes empirically whether inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) work … as channels for international R&D spillovers. We utilize firm-level as well as industry-level data for Swedish … manufacturing in the analysis. We find no evidence of FDI-related R&D spillovers - neither at the firm-level nor at the industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207055
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The Effects of R&D Externalities in a Spatial Model
Häckner, Jonas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1990
reduced both through own investments and by spillovers from the competitor and these spillovers are decreasing in the distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818535
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Origins and Resolution of Financial Crises; Lessons from the Current and Northern European Crises
Ostrup, Finn; Oxelheim, Lars; Wihlborg, Clas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
Since July 2007 the world economy has experienced a severe financial crisis originating in the U.S. housing market. The crisis has subsequently spread to the financial sectors in European and Asian economies and led to a severe worldwide recession. The existing literature on financial crises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005245161
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Improving the SGP: Taxes and Delegation rather than Fines
Lindbeck, Assar; Niepelt, Dirk - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2004
We analyze motivations for, and possible alternatives to, the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP). With regard to the former, we identify domestic policy failures and various cross-country spillover effects; with regard to the latter, we contrast an "economic-theory" perspective on optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419534
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EU – China and the Non-transparent Race for Inward FDI
Oxelheim, Lars; Ghauri, Pervez - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
and improve productivity, as well as medium-term efforts, such as lowering corporate taxes. The paper elaborates on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645346
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Strategic Investments in the Pulp and Paper Industry: A Count Data Regression Analysis
Bergman, Mats A.; Johansson, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2000
This paper analyses the effects of price and market size variables on the investment propensities in the pulp and paper industry. A panel of 15 European countries in the time period 1984 - 1997 is used in the regression analysis. We find the wages, the US/ECU exchange rate, the price of paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207063
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Foreign Direct Investment and Employment: Home Country Experience in the United States and Sweden
Blomstrom, M.; Fors, G.; Lipsey, R.E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
-substituting trade regimes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486487
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Finance-specific Factors as Drivers of Cross-border Investment – An OLI Perspective
Forssbaeck, Jens; Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
In this paper we empirically test the role of firm-specific financial characteristics as drivers of international investment and production. We hypothesize that financial strength generates advantages that can be exploited through cross-border investment activity. The hypothesis is tested in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645343
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Globalization, Transparency and Economic Growth: The Vulnerability of Chinese Firms to Macroeconomic Shocks
Oxelheim, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The process of globalization encompasses economic and financial integration. Abolition of capital controls and dismantling of barriers of different kinds are important ingredients of the process that will entirely change the exposure of previously sheltered companies to shocks on the global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645385