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Challenges to globalization : analyzing the economics
Baldwin, Robert E. (ed.) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001791053
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Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War
Jones, Benjamin F. - 2007
all world leaders from 1875 to 2004, we exploit inherent randomness in the success or failure of assassination attempts to … toward democracy. We also find that assassinations affect the intensity of small-scale conflicts. The results document a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465552
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Resource Windfalls, Political Regimes, and Political Stability
Caselli, Francesco - 2011
We study theoretically and empirically whether natural resource windfalls affect political regimes. We document the following regularities. Natural resource windfalls have no effect on the political system when they occur in democracies. However, windfalls have significant political consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461056
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Topics in empirical international economics : a festschrift in honor of Robert E. Lipsey
Blomström, Magnus (ed.); Lipsey, Robert E. (honouree);  … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001511918
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Intra-Industry Foreign Direct Investment
Alfaro, Laura - 2007
We use a new firm level data set that establishes the location, ownership, and activity of 650,000 multinational subsidiaries -- close to a comprehensive picture of global multinational activity. A number of patterns emerge from the data. Most foreign direct investment (FDI) occurs between rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465202
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Multinational Enterprises, International Trade, and Productivity Growth : Firm-Level Evidence from the United States
Keller, Wolfgang - 2003
We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment (FDI) between the years of 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to significant productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469199
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Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity
Bilir, Kamran - 2014
This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial development on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we provide evidence that host-country financial development increases entry by multinational affiliates, while also decreasing affiliate sales in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458618
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2013
We quantify the effect of foreign investment on productivity of acquired firms using a new firm-level database that tracks foreign ownership changes. To control for endogenous selection on unobserved firm-level characteristics, we study the differential impact of majority and minority foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459741
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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism
Abadie, Alberto - 2004
-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467830
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Forms of Democracy, Policy and Economic Development
Persson, Torsten - 2005
of democracy (rather than democracy vs. non-democracy) has important consequences for the adoption of structural polices … opposed to majoritarian) and permanent (as opposed to temporary) democracy appear to produce the most growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467514