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Estimating Direct and Indirect Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Firm Productivity in the Presence of Interactions between Firms
Girma, Sourafel - 2015
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the … indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in … in empirical studies examining a direct causal effect of foreign ownership on firm productivity, namely that of no …
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Suppliers of Multinationals and the Forced Linkage Effect : Evidence from Firm Level Data
Godart, Olivier - 2013
productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …
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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017
-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Abebe, Girum - 2020
. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …
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Do Environmental Regulations Effect FDI Decisions? The Pollution Haven Hypothesis Revisited
Yoon, Haeyeon - 2017
In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations on foreign direct investment (FDI). We use Korean outward FDI data covering the manufacturing sector for 2009-15. The study not only considers the stringency but also the...
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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development
Arias, Javier - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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Excess Leverage and Productivity Growth in Emerging Economies : Is There a Threshold Effect?
Coricelli, Fabrizio - 2010
The paper examines the relationship between leverage and growth in a group of emerging central and eastern European countries, who are at different levels of financial market development. We hypothesize a non-linear relationship in that moderate leverage could boost growth while very high...
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The Coming Wave : Where Do Emerging Market Investors Put Their Money?
Karolyi, George Andrew - 2015
We examine how emerging market (EM) investors allocate their stock portfolios internationally. Using both country-level and institution-level data, we find that the coming wave of EM investors systematically over- and under-weight their holdings in some target countries. These abnormal foreign...
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How Successful are Banking Sector Reforms in Emerging Market Economies? Evidence from Impact of Monetary Policy on Levels and Structures of Firm Debt in India
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2016
Many emerging markets have undertaken significant financial sector reforms especially in their banking sectors that have been quite critical for both financial development and real economic activity. In this paper, we investigate the success of banking reforms in India where significant banking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988130
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Spillovers Through Backward Linkages from Multinationals : Measurement Matters!
Barrios, Salvador - 2009
We argue that the measures of backward linkages used in recent papers on spillovers from multinational companies are potentially problematic, as they depend on a number of restrictive assumptions, namely that (i) multinationals use domestically produced inputs in the same proportion as imported...
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