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The business environment in the transition
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - 2012
faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an …
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Economic Policy Uncertainty : Persistence and Cross-Country Linkages
Aikins Abakah, Emmanuel Joel - 2020
This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
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Diasporas and Economic Development : A Review of the Evidence and Policy
Bahar, Dany - 2020
The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital"
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International Value-Added Linkages in Development Accounting
Cuñat, Alejandro - 2018
We generalise the traditional development-accounting framework to an open-economy setting. In addition to factor endowments and productivity, relative factor costs emerge as a source of real-income variation across countries. These are shaped by bilateral trade determinants (which underpin the...
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Political Risk and Real Exchange Rate : What Can We Learn from Recent Developments in Panel Data Econometrics for Emerging and Developing Countries?
Bahmani‐Oskooee, Mohsen - 2019
tests whether non-economic variables have an impact on RER in 31 emerging and developing countries. We use annual data from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892145
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Stigma or Cushion? IMF Programs and Sovereign Creditworthiness
Gehring, Kai - 2018
IMF programs are often considered to carry a “stigma” that triggers adverse market reactions. We show that such a negative IMF effect disappears when accounting for endogenous selection into programs. To proxy for a country's access to financial markets, we use credit ratings and investor...
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On the Preferred Creditor Status of Multilateral Development Banks
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2023
The loans of the IMF, World Bank, and other multilateral development banks (MDBs) are excluded from debt restructuring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347019
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Climate change mitigation strategies in fast-growing countries : the benefits of early action
Bosetti, Valentina; Carraro, Carlo; Tavoni, Massimo - 2009
gas emissions. These actions, however, will not be sufficient to control global warming, unless developing countries also … prevent excessive warming without hampering economic growth. Results indicate that developing countries would incur … investment behaviour is to anticipate the implementation of a climate policy by roughly 10 years. Investing in innovation ahead …
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The Rise (and Fall) of Tech Clusters
Kichko, Sergey - 2020
what a dispersed pattern would generate. With continual improvements in infrastructure and communication technology that …
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Relational Contracts and Trust in a High-Tech Industry
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2021
We study how informal buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry affect procurement. Using unique data from a survey focusing on these, we show that more trust, the belief that the trading partner acts to maintain the mutual relationship, is associated with both higher...
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