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Globalization and Local Profiles of Economic Growth and Industrial Change
Dauth, Wolfgang - 2014
We analyze how globalization has affected the sectoral anatomy of regional growth in Germany over the period 1978-2008. The aggregate German economy is characterized by a secular decline of manufacturing and a rise of modern service industries. This trend– also known as Petty's law – is not...
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Contribute to Productivity Growth?
Kose, M. Ayhan; Prasad, Eswar S.; Terrones, Marco E. - 2021
Economic theory has identified a number of channels through which openness to international financial flows could raise productivity growth. However, while there is a vast empirical literature analyzing the impact of financial openness on output growth, far less attention has been paid to its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325040
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Foreign Ownership and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between foreign ownership and firm survival for enterprises in Germany using … providing the first evidence on the role of foreign ownership for firm survival in Germany, one of the most important … destination countries for foreign direct investments. Our micro-econometric analysis reveals a ceteris paribus higher risk of exit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117183
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Foreign Direct Investment and Knowledge Diffusion in Poor Locations
Abebe, Girum - 2020
We use a plant level survey to identify interactions between domestic plants and foreign direct investment (FDI) in … where a large greenfield foreign plant produces and districts where FDI in the same industry and around the same time was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829230
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2021
1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318130
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Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2012
The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human … capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109436
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The Benefits of Being Economics Professor A (and Not Z)
van Praag, Mirjam - 2007
Alphabetic name ordering on multi-authored academic papers, which is the convention in the economics discipline and various other disciplines, is to the advantage of people whose last name initials are placed early in the alphabet. As it turns out, Professor A, who has been a first author more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777263
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Superstar Economists : Coauthorship Networks and Research Output
Hsieh, Chih-Sheng - 2018
We study the impact of research collaborations in coauthorship networks on research output and how optimal funding can maximize it. Through the links in the collaboration network, researchers create spillovers not only to their direct coauthors but also to researchers indirectly linked to them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907829
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Trends in Economic Research : An International Perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute - 2010
standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147133
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A Literature Review of the Economics of Covid-19
Brodeur, Abel - 2020
The goal of this piece is to survey the emerging and rapidly growing literature on the economic consequences of COVID-19 and government response, and to synthetize the insights emerging from a very large number of studies. This survey (i) provides an overview of the data sets used to measure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829923