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Does foreign entry spur innovation?
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Švejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2015
Our estimates, based on large firm-level and industry-level data sets from eighteen countries, suggest that FDI and trade have strong positive spillover effects on product and technology innovation by domestic firms in emerging markets. The FDI effect is more pronounced for firms from advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308400
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786965
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Foreign investment, corporate ownership, and development : are firms in emerging markets catching up to the world standard?
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2005
advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002548972
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Distance to the efficiency frontier and FDI spillovers
Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the … change from 1995-1997 to 1998-2000. However, the distance to the frontier is orders of magnitude greater in Russia than in …, in the Czech Republic this negative spilloverʺ effect is diminished over time, whereas in Russia it continues to cause …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002452319
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The effect on foreign direct investment of membership in the European Union
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro; Estrin, Saul - 2020
This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the effects of such deep integration differ from other forms and investigates what drives these effects. Using a structural gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012288695
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Entrepreneurship and market size : the case of young college graduates in Italy
Di Addario, Sabrina; Vuri, Daniela - 2010
We analyze empirically the effects of urban agglomeration on Italian college graduates' work possibilities as entrepreneurs three years after graduation. We find that each 100,000 inhabitant-increase in the size of the individual's province of work reduces the chances of being an entrepreneur by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779871
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The finnish great depression : from Russia with love
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Mendoza, Enrique G.; Tesar, Linda L. - 2009
During the period 1991-93, Finland experienced the deepest economic downturn in an industrialized country since the 1930s. We argue that the culprit behind this Great Depression was the collapse of Finnish trade with the Soviet Union, because it induced a costly restructuring of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003831152
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The impact of globalization and technology transfer on manufacturing employment and skills in Ethiopia
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Srour, Ilina; Vivarelli, Marco - 2013
There is a dearth of research on the impact of technological change on employment in the context of least developed countries (LDCs) embarking on globalization, which enhances the prospect of direct technological imports or embodied technological transfer. Using a sample of 1,940 enterprises...
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Persistence of the school entry age effect in a system of flexible tracking
Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2007
the German state of Hessen to measure the persistence of school entry age's impact on choice of secondary school track …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634616
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Testing mundell's intuition of endogenous OCA theory
Warin, Thierry (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents an empirical assessment of the endogenous optimum currency area theory. Frankel and Rose (1998) study the endogeneity of a currency union through the lens of international trade flows. Our study extends Frankel and Rose's model by using FDI flows to test the original theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760087