institutional uncertainty (and of its elimination) on job creation and job destruction in the CEEC candidate countries. We conclude … that structural change on CEEC labor markets tends to be fostered via reducing institutional uncertainty. However, these … value analysis, we investigate and evaluate the trade-off between lower institutional uncertainty and higher employment …

institutional uncertainty (and of its elimination) on job creation and job destruction in the CEEC candidate countries. We conclude … that structural change on CEEC labor markets tends to be fostered via reducing institutional uncertainty. However, these … value analysis, we investigate and evaluate the trade-off between lower institutional uncertainty and higher employment …

While the recent increase in foreign direct investment (FDI) to African countries is a welcome development, the … the impact of FDI on development is through its effects on domestic factor markets, especially domestic investment and … employment. In this context, this study analyses the two-way linkages between FDI and domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa …

is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. … evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … - where the firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi while the least productive firms serve the home market only and …

In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … an alternative way to model whether firms export or not, namely as a firm-level decision akin to an investment decision … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms’ export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …

impact of changes in the interest rate on macroeconomic investment under certainty and under uncertainty to investigate … whether uncertainty over future interest rates in the Euro area hampers monetary policy transmission. In this non-linear model … uncertainty into the regressions, the results do not change much which may be due to the interest rate implicitly incorporating …