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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier …

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Energy Consumption, Economic Growth and CO2 Emissions in Middle East and North African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This article extends the recent findings of Liu (2005), Ang (2007), Apergis et al. (2009) and Payne (2010) by implementing recent bootstrap panel unit root tests and cointegration techniques to investigate the relationship between carbon dioxide emissions, energy consumption, and real GDP for 12...

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Exploring the Causality Links between Energy and Employment in African Countries

Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Ben Youssef, Adel; M'henni, Hatem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using a bootstrap panel analysis that allows for cross-country dependence, without requiring the use of pre-tests for a unit root, we study the causality links between energy use and employment for a sample of 16 African countries over the 1991-2010 period (according to availability of...

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