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Assessing Asia - Sub-Saharan Africa global value chain linkages
Tang, Heiwai; Zeng, Douglas Zhihua; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2020
with exports to the rest of the world, suggesting that in contrast to trade diversion, trade with Asia complements exports …' participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are … to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …
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Heterogeneous immigrants and foreign direct investment: The role of language skills
Lücke, Matthias; Stöhr, Tobias - 2015
We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI out-stocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004-2011 data, we find a robust positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI - provided that residents of...
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South-South FDI: Is it really different?
Görg, Holger; Gold, Robert; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. However, we find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011659398
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Creating backward linkages from multinationals: is there a role for financial incentives?
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - 2009
We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We use a comprehensive panel data of Irish firms from 1983 until 2002. Our data shows a spontaneity about linkages and relative insensitivity to grant aid, although it may be the...
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Corporate social responsibility in global supply chains of multinational companies
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2015
This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about the choice of local suppliers. We investigate this empirically using unique firm level data for more than 2,000 foreign owned firms in 19 Sub-Saharan African...
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Multinational Firms, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages
Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - 2004
This paper develops a two-tier oligopoly model in which the entry of a multinational firm results in technology transfer to its local suppliers and also impacts the degree of backward linkages in the local industry. The model endogenizes the multinational's choice between anonymous market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260534
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Emerging East-West collaborative networks: An appraisal
Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - 1998
Although an extensive amount of literature reviews emerging patterns of east-west co-operation, it is not easy to grasp the state of the art. Too many of the books, articles and papers tend to mark the trees rather than to map the forest. The paper analyses recent trends from the point of view...
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Bilateral investment treaties do work: Until they don't
Aisbett, Emma; Busse, Matthias; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
The recent boom of investor-state disputes filed under international investment agreements has fueled a controversial academic and policy debate. Despite its importance, there has been very little work to date on the impacts of compensation claims by investors on FDI flows to the responding host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414225
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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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Greenfield FDI, cross-border M&As and government size
Ashraf, Ayesha; Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
This study examines the effects of greenfield FDI and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on government size in host countries of FDI. Using panel data for up to 130 countries for the period from 2003-2011, the study specifically tests the compensation hypothesis, suggesting that by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572142