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Transnationalism and integration: Complements or Substitutes?
Dekker, Bram; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This paper investigates the relationship between transnational practices and integration by testing whether they are substitutes or complements. For this purpose, we use a multidimensional transnationalism index. The index includes three dimensions of transnational practices, including migrants'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010729232
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Foreign Ownership, Technological Capabilities and Exports: Evidence from 205 Clothing Firms in Sri Lanka
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2006
Sri Lanka was the earliest South Asian economy to introduce economic reforms to attract export-oriented FDI. The rise of clothing production for export, apparently mainly driven by foreign firms, is regarded as a major outcome of the reforms. This paper seeks to examine a range of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712078
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FDI, R&D and Innovation Output in the Chinese Automobile Industry
Chen, Fang; Mohnen, Pierre - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
After joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), China witnessed a major inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI …). Many famous automobile firms of developed countries were attracted to invest in China to cooperate with domestic firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712219
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The Global Challenges of the Knowledge Economy: China and the EU
Huang, Can; Soete, Luc - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
This paper addresses some of the challenges confronting the European Union and China as they build their knowledge … Lisbon agenda. To move further, China needs to overcome the obstacles of regional disparities, transform its industry and … the scope for comparative studies of the EU and China, for mutual learning from each other's experience - even for joint …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712269
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Growth with imported resources: On the sustainability of U.S. growth and foreign debt
Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2009
We provide a growth model with imported resources and foreign debt accumulation providing the basis for two questions and regression equations. 1) Under what conditions do growth rates of per capita income remain positive if imported inputs such as oil have increasing real prices? 2) Is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856312
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Russia's emerging multinationals: trends and issues
Filippov, Sergey - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The paper focuses on the emergence of Russia's multinational companies. It aims to analyse their motives to internationalise as well as the approaches to internationalisation. While relevance of the theoretical perspectives is highlighted, the intention of the paper is to contribute to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856349
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China's economic embrace of Africa: An international comparative perspective
Broich T.; Szirmai A. - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2014
This paper discusses the entry of China into the game of foreign finance in Africa. It analyses the scope, destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856361
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States and Firms on the Periphery: The Challenges of a Globalising World
Benito, Gabriel; Narula, Rajneesh - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
A key feature of globalisation has been the growth and spread of multinational enterprises (MNEs), but there is here is considerable evidence that MNEs do not regard all locations as being equivalent. MNE activity both to and from peripheral economies differs from MNE activity associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856436
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Estimations of US debt dynamics: Growth cum debt and the savings glut in Kouri’s model
Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2007
We derive the central differential equation of the neoclassical growth model for the case of a CES (constant elasticity of substitution) production function with perfect capital movement in terms of the debt/GDP ratio and estimate it in several ways for the United States and in a later step the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712028
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New Europe's Promise for Life Sciences
Filippov, Sergey; Kalotay, Kalman - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2008
The life sciences sector (and biotechnology in particular) has emerged as a prospective area, and attracted a lot of attention recently. Multinational companies in the life sciences seek to explore new markets, and, on the other side, governments strive to develop the life sciences sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712051