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Skill Intensity in Foreign Trade and Economic Growth

Woerz, Julia - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper explores the link between trade structure, trade specialization and per capita incomegrowth. It is argued that industrial upgrading in export specialization patterns has a positive long-rungrowth effect, while the effect of structural change in industrial import patterns is in...

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Transaction Management: Value Creation by Reducing Transaction Costs

Butter, Frank A.G. den - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This discussion paper led to a publication in (W.D. Nelson (Ed.)), <I>Advances in Business and Management</I> (pp. 1-32), New York: Nova Publishers, 2011. In this era of globalization we see an increase in specialization: the production chain issplit up in more and more parts and the production of...</i>

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Productivity Gains from Offshoring: an Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands

Butter, Frank A.G. den; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...

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Trade in Financial Services: Procompetitive Effects and Growth Performance

Francois, Joseph F.; Schuknecht, Lutger - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999

In this paper we explore linkages between financial services tradeand growth. We offer aformalization of the argument that trade, through the fostering offinancial market integration,may yield important long-run effects related to increasedcompetition. The relationshipsformalized here link...

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Financial Sector Competition, Service Trade, and Growth

Francois, Joseph F.; Eschenbach, Felix - Tinbergen Instituut - 2002

We explore dynamic linkages between financial/banking sector openness, financial sector competition, and growth. We first develop an analytical model, highlighting links between long-run economic performance and services trade, through scale economies and market and cost structures in the...

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Maintenance Costs, Obsolescence, and Endogenous Growth

Berden, Koen G.; Marrewijk, Charles van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2001

investment in research and development and the growth rate of theeconomy. …

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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...

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Finance and Growth: A Survey of the Theoretical and Empirical Literature

Eschenbach, Felix - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on links between domestic financial development and economic growth. It starts with the pioneers in this field and then classifies two main schools favouring liberal financial regimes. First McKinnon and Shaw advocated financial...

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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment

Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm …-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …

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Risk and Savings: a Taxonomy

Gunning, Jan Willem - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008

Risk may induce precautionary saving but it can also reduce saving. The theoretical literature recognizes both possibilities, but favors a positive effect (both for developed and developing countries); the empirical literature is divided, reporting (small) positive effects for developed...

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