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Foreign ownership and the export and import propensities of developing-country firms

Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2015

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...

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World market access of emerging-market firms: The role of foreign ownership and access to external finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...

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Openness, Intermediate Imports and Growth

Kopp, Andreas - 2000

We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...

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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...

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The use of collateral in formal and informal lending

Kislat, Carmen; Menkhoff, Lukas; Neuberger, Doris - 2013

informal lenders rely less on collateral with shorter distance to the borrower. …

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Distance(s) and the volatility of international trade(s)

Mehl, Arnaud; Schmitz, Martin; Tille, Cédric - 2019

Does distance matter for the volatility of international real and financial transactions? We show that it does, in … a broad range of real and financial transactions measures, as well as several different metrics of distance (physical … between countries that are more distant along the various metrics, and find that the different distance measures magnify each …

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FDI by early movers, followers and latecomers: timing of entry by German firms during transition in the Czech Republic

Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … uncertainty. Likewise, distance-related transaction costs discourage FDI by latecomers considerably less than FDI by early movers. …

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The price of war

Federle, Jonathan; Meier, André; Müller, Gernot J.; … - 2024

geographic distance and increase in the degree of trade integration with the war site. For very distant countries, output …

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The allocation of German aid: Self-interest and government ideology

Dreher, Axel; Nunnenkamp, Peter; Schmaljohann, Maya - 2013

We investigate the importance of geo-strategic and commercial motives for the allocation of German aid to 138 countries over the 1973-2010 period. We find that geo-strategic and - less robustly - commercial motives matter. When we relate geo-strategic and commercial motives to the political...

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Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia

Hornok, Cecília; Raeskyesa, Dewa Gede Sidan - 2022

Economic zones can be powerful drivers of economic growth in developing countries. However, less is known about their distributional impact on the local society. This paper provides empirical evidence from Indonesian provinces on the relationship between economic zones and within-province income...

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