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Multinationals' Productivity Advantage : Scale or Technology?

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2015

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components: the technology and scale effect. The second aim is to analyse the causal relationship between foreign ownership and these two components of productivity growth. We do so by...

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Foreign Bank Entry into Emerging Economies: An Empirical Assessment of the Determinants and Risks Predicated on German FDI Data

Wezel, Torsten - 2004

characteristics. Results indicate that FDI by non-banks exerted a strong pull effect on banking FDI flows, as did highly developed … variable turns out be highly negatively correlated with FDI flows. Disaggregation of the sample by region illustrates that the …

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Does co-financing by multilateral development banks increase "risky" direct investment in emerging markets?

Wezel, Torsten - 2004

The paper discusses the question of whether financial participation of multilateral development banks does prompt private investors to inject more risky equity capital in emerging market banks. Using a theoretical model, it is stipulated that the presence of an official lender in a project gives...

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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: evidence from quantile regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005

productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments … matters for productivity spillover benefits. We find evidence for a u-shaped relationship between productivity growth and FDI …

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Determinants of German Foreign Direct Investment in Latin American and Asian Emerging Markets in the 1990s

Wezel, Torsten - 2003

Many empirical studies in the area of foreign direct investment (FDI) exclusively focus on flows between industrialized … countries. This article makes a contribution to the still relatively sparse literature on FDI in emerging markets by estimating … determinants of German FDI flows to Latin America and Asia during the past decade. Using data contained in a newly available …

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