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Assessing competitiveness using industry unit labor costs : an application to Slovakia
DeBroeck, Mark; Guscina, Anastasia; Mehrez, Gil - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615299
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Global value chains and productivity : micro evidence from Estonia
Banh, Hang T.; Wingender, Philippe; Gueye, Cheikh - 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also highlighted the role played by global value chains (GVC), with countries facing shortages of components vital to everything from health systems to everyday household goods....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012252668
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International knowledge spillovers
Eugster, Johannes L.; Ho, Giang; Jaumotte, Florence; … - 2018
How important is foreign knowledge for domestic innovation outcomes? How is this relation shaped by globalization and the attendant intensification of international competition? Our empirical approach extends the previous literature by analyzing a large panel comprising industries in both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978592
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Demographics, pension systems and the saving-investment balance
Chai, Hua; Kim, Jun-il - 2018
This paper studies the effect of demographic change on national saving, global interest rates, and international capital flows, focusing on the role of the public pension system. We develop a small open economy overlapping generations model to illustrate the channels through which demographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978553
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Trade uncertainty and investment in the euro area
Ebeke, Christian; Siminitz, Jesse - 2018
We analyze the impact of trade policy uncertainty on investment in the euro area. Our identification strategy assumes … that countries that are relatively more dependent on global trade networks exhibit a higher sensitivity of investment with … respect to trade uncertainty. We find that the investment-to-GDP ratio is on average 0.8 percentage points lower for five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978678
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Income inequality and government transfers in Mexico
Lambert, Frederic; Park, Hyunmin - 2019
We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income … inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102100
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Firm size, life cycle dynamics and growth constraints : evidence from Mexico
Misch, Florian; Saborowski, Christian - 2019
This paper examines the variation in life cycle growth across the universe of Mexican firms. We establish two stylized facts to motivate our analysis: first, we show that firm size matters for development by illustrating a close correlation with state-level per capita incomes. Second, we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102218
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Domestic and foreign mutual funds in Mexico : do they behave differently?
Xiao, Jasmine - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281191
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Made in Mexico : energy reform and manufacturing growth
Alvarez, Jorge; Valencia, Fabian - 2015
This paper assesses the real effects of the energy reform in Mexico by looking at its impact on manufacturing output …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281920
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Public investment as an engine of growth
Warner, Andrew M. - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441751