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Appropriate Entrepreneurship? The Rise of China and the Developing World

Lerner, Joshua; Liu, Junxi; Moscona, Jacob; Yang, David Y. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

the dramatic growth of high-potential entrepreneurship and venture capital in China. First, using comprehensive data on …-level economic indicators, we find that this effect was driven by country-sector pairs most similar to their counterparts in China …" businesses and technology pioneered by China, and that a system where only rich countries lead in innovation could limit …

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Interpreting Developed Countries' Foreign Direct Investment

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000

Inward and outward direct investment (FDI) stocks and flows tend to go together, across countries and over time. The countries that invest extensively abroad are usually also large recipients of FDI. There is little evidence that flows of FDI are a major influence on capital formation. That lack...

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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries

Harrison, Ann - 2009

In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...

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Capital Account Liberalization, Real Wages, and Productivity

Henry, Peter Blair - 2008

For three years after the typical developing country opens its stock market to inflows of foreign capital, the average annual growth rate of the real wage in the manufacturing sector increases by a factor of seven. No such increase occurs in a control group of developing countries. The temporary...

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Capital Flows to Developing Countries : The Allocation Puzzle

Gourinchas, Pierre-Olivier - 2007

According to the consensus view in growth and development economics, cross country differences in per-capita income largely reflect differences in countries' total factor productivity. We argue that this view has powerful implications for patterns of capital flows: everything else equal,...

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Foreign Know-How, Firm Control, and the Income of Developing Countries

Burstein, Ariel - 2007

Managerial know-how shapes the productivity of firms by defining the set of available technologies, production choices, and market opportunities. This know-how can be reallocated across countries as managers acquire control of factors of production abroad. In this paper, we construct a...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment : Theory and Evidence

Branstetter, Lee - 2007

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the effect of strengthening intellectual property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are...

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Y2K and Offshoring : The Role of External Economies and Firm Heterogeneity

Mitra, Devashish - 2005

We construct a model of offshoring with externalities and firm heterogeneity. Due to the presence of externalities, temporary shocks like the Y2K problem can have permanent effects, i.e., they can permanently raise the extent of offshoring in an industry. Also, the initial advantage of a country...

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Inappropriate Pooling of Wealthy and Poor Countries in Empirical FDI Studies

Blonigen, Bruce A. - 2004

This paper examines the question of whether less-developed countries' (LDCs') experiences with foreign direct investment (FDI) systematically different from those of developed countries (DCs). We do this by examining three types of empirical FDI studies that typically do not distinguish between...

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The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries

Brown, Drusilla K. - 2003

This paper assesses the evidence regarding the effects of multinational production on wages and working conditions in developing countries. It is motivated by recent controversies concerning whether multinational firms in developing countries exploit workers by paying low wages and subjecting...

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