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Review of the recent trends in development economics research: with experience from the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007
This study is a review of the recent trends in development economics research. The focus is on the development in the recent decades as a result of increased globalization of knowledge, technologies and economies. In particular I look at the development in a number area where similar trends are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646693
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Unraveling the role of public researcher mobility for industrial innovation
Ejsing, Ann-Kathrine; Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans … - 2011
We estimate the relative contribution of mobile scientists who leave academia for the private sector on the subsequent innovative performance of the firms they join. We use data on the population of Danish firms and their R&D workers for the period 1999-2004 and measure innovation performance by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009306331
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Foreign direct investment and domestic entrepreneurship : blessing or curse?
Danakol, Seçil Hülya; Estrin, Saul; Reynolds, Paul … - 2013
including both developed and developing economies, 2000‐2009. The theory yields ambiguous predictions about the relationship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224595
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786965
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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332105
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Much ado about nothing? Do domestic firms really benefit from foreign direct investment?
Görg, Holger (contributor); Greenaway, David (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001830017
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment : the role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Heidland, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI – provided that residents of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011347125
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Do environmental regulations effect FDI decisions? : the pollution haven hypothesis revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
in the non-production part using location information about the host country. The main results of the estimation of a FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011704340
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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636585
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003291728