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Impact of Trade on Wages : What If Countries Are Not Small?

Saito, Mika - 2006

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Do Capital Inflows Spur Technology Diffusion? Evidence from a New Technology Adoption Index

Cugat, Gabriela - 2024

We construct a novel measure of technology adoption, the Embodied Technology Imports Indicator (ETI), available for 181 countries over the period 1970-2020. The ETI measures the technological intensity of imports of each country by leveraging patent data from PATSTAT and product-level trade data...

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Tax Concessions and Foreign Direct Investmentin the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union

Chai, Jingqing; Goyal, Rishi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Tax concessions have been employed as a central component of the development strategy in the small island states comprising the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union. This paper compares the costs of concessions in terms of revenues forgone with the benefits in terms of increased foreign direct...

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China'S Integration Into the World Economy; Implications for Developing Countries

Yang, Yongzheng - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly...

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The Endogenous Skill Bias of Technical Change and Inequality in Developing Countries

Behar, Alberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013

This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...

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What Role Can Financial Policies Play in Revitalizing SMEs in Japan?.

Lam, Raphael W - 2012

). Firm-level SME data and sectoral corporate balance sheets show that many SMEs have faced structural challenges of high … support measures should be phased out and SME restructuring be accelerated. Efforts are also needed to deepen capital markets … Performance of SMEs, by Risk Groups -- 5. Japan: Slow SME Restructuring -- 6. Limited Availability of Risk-based Capital and …

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Zimbabwe's Export Performance : The Impact of the Parallel Market and Governance Factors

Muñoz, Sònia - 2006

Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. EXPORT PERFORMANCE IN ZIMBABWE -- III. ANALYSIS OF THE DETERMINANTS OF EXPORT BEHAVIOR -- IV. COMPARATIVE MEASURES OF COMPETITIVENESS -- V. CONCLUSIONS -- Appendix I. Description of Sources and Transformation -- REFERENCES.

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The Dynamic Effects of Local Labor Market Shocks on Small Firms in The United States

Barrett, Philip - 2024

We use payroll data on over 1 million workers at 80,000 small firms to construct county-month measures of employment, hours, and wages that correct for dynamic changes in sample composition in response to business cycle fluctuations. We use this to estimate the response of small firms'...

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Small Firm Growth and the VAT Threshold Evidence for the UK

Liu, Li - 2024

This paper studies the effect of the VAT threshold on firm growth in the UK, using exogenous variation over time in the threshold, combined with turnover bin fixed effects, for identification. We find robust evidence that annual growth in turnover slows by about 1 percentage point when firm...

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Evolution of debt sustainability analysis in low-income countries : some aggregate evidence

Baduel, Benedicte; Price, Robert W. - 2012

The Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) for low-income countries (LICs) is a standardized analytical tool to monitor debt sustainability. This paper uses DSAs from three periods around the time of the global economic crisis to analyze the projected trajectories of debt ratios for a sample of...

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