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patterns of Chinese institutional investors (IIs), which constitute the main channel for foreign portfolio investment outflows …
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The paper contributes to the globalization debate by scrutinizing the international spillover effects which are provoked if a single country reduces the generosity of the unemployment compensation system or weakens labor union power. For this purpose a two-country model with imperfect...
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We use rich firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new … and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the … host country (i.e., spillovers). We document that backward linkages have a consistently positive effect on productivity of …
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Cross-country regressions suggest little connection from foreign capital inflows to more rapid economic growth for developing countries and emerging markets. This suggests that the lack of domestic savings is not the primary constraint on growth in these economies, as implicitly assumed in the...
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In theory, one of the main benefits of financial globalization is that it should allow for more efficient international risk sharing. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive empirical evaluation of the patterns of risk sharing among different groups of countries and examine how international...
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. -- backward linkages ; multinational customers ; suppliers ; forced linkage ; productivity spillovers …
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globalization through the impact of increased competition and foreign direct investment on domestic firms’ efforts to raise their … ; emerging markets ; spillovers …
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We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and … existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country … (i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger sample of countries and greater variety of firms than existing …
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productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output … direct investment ; portfolio equity ; debt ; total factor productivity …
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by foreign-currency debt and have instead shifted sharply towards direct investment and portfolio equity. Their external … institutions. -- emerging markets ; international investment positions ; structure of external assets and liabilities ; foreign …
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