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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
related to the change in their management performance. We use new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany. We calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013), which indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …
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Foreign know-how, firm control, and the income of developing countries
Burstein, Ariel T.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2007
Managerial know-how shapes the productivity of firms by defining the set of available technologies, production choices, and market opportunities. This know-how can be reallocated across countries as managers acquire control of factors of production abroad. In this paper, we construct a...
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Spillover effects in mutual fund companies
Sialm, Clemens; Tham, T. Mandy - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268875
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Foreign direct investment, spillovers and absorptive capacity: Evidence from quantile regressions
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2005
This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...
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The role of production technology for productivity spillovers from multinationals: firm-level evidence for Hungary
Görg, Holger; Hijzen, Alexander; Muraközy, Balázs - 2009
This paper analyses the potential for productivity spillovers from inward foreign direct investment using administrative panel data on firms for Hungary. We hypothesise that the potential for spillovers is related to observable characteristics of the production process of foreign affiliates, and...
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Spillovers through backward linkages from multinationals: measurement matters!
Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 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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Trade, Foreign direct investment, and multinational enterprises in a general equilibrium model
Koop, Michael J. - 1997
Trade, foreign direct investment and the existence of multinational enterprises are often analyzed in separate model, which are frequently based on mutually exclusive assumptions. The paper integrates several features of international economic exchange into one general equilibrium model. This...
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Home country effects of foreign direct investment : evidence from Sweden
Blomström, Magnus - 1994
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No place like home : tax incentives and the location of R & D by American multinationals
Hines, James R. - 1993
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An empirical assessment of the factor proportions explanation of multinational sales
Brainard, Lael - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000883853