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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic linkages and institutional distance
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - 2014
development boosts linkages between domestic firms and multinationals. Using a novel dataset from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey … countries with worse institutions relative to the origin country. Additionally, institutional distance matters more for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327851
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Africa's Great Moderation
Krantz, Sebastian - 2022
conditions, characterized by higher and more stable real per-capita growth rates, and lower and more stable inflation, which … reduction of growth volatility in agriculture, followed by services. On the expenditure side, private consumption and investment … growth have stabilized considerably. Analysis of a broad range of explanatory factors yields that only a small fraction of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462640
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Why are Africa's female entrepreneurs not playing the export game? Evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles Godfred; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; … - 2020
We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … and security concerns, are more deeply felt by female entrepreneurs. This may hint at the exclusion of Africa's females …
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Infrastructure and trade: A gravity analysis for major trade categories using a new index of infrastructure
Donaubauer, Julian; Glas, Alexander; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
Making use of considerably improved measures of infrastructure, we assess the impact of infrastructure on bilateral trade for a panel of 37 developed and emerging economies during the period 1995-2011. We find significant and non-linear effects of overall infrastructure and infrastructure in...
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Offshoring and labour market inequalities
Schwörer, Tillmann - 2013
classical argument that German labour market institutions (collective bargaining, unemployment benefits, etc.) lead to rigid …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322835
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Does aid-for-trade from the North promote South-South trade?
Hühne, Philipp; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
Our empirical estimations indicate that aid-for-trade granted by OECD donors strengthens the trade relations of recipient countries with other developing countries. By focusing on South-South trade we mitigate endogeneity concerns that have plagued analyses of trade between recipients and donors...
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A new global index on infrastructure: Construction, rankings and applications
Donaubauer, Julian; Meyer, Birgit; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
We construct comprehensive and comparable indices on the most relevant components of economic infrastructure. An unobserved components model is employed to cover the largest possible number of developing and developed countries over the period 1990-2010. We map major findings from the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368450
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Friendly fire - the trade impact of the Russia sanctions and counter-sanctions
Crozet, Matthieu; Hinz, Julian - 2016
Economic sanctions are a frequent instrument of foreign policy. In a diplomatic conflict, they aim to elicit a change in the policies of foreign governments by damaging their economy. However, sanctions are not costless for the sending economy, where domestic firms involved in business with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561848
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How foreign-born workers foster exports
Marchal, Léa; Nedoncelle, Clément - 2017
We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous firms, assuming that foreign workers allow for productivity gains and convey valuable information on foreign markets. We illustrate that foreign workers...
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On the effects of sanctions on trade and welfare: New evidence based on structural gravity and a new database
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yalcin, Erdal - 2019
Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022718