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Assessing the advantages of EMU-enlargement for the EU and the accession countries : a comparative indicator approach
Schweickert, Rainer - 2001
The paper takes into account both the concerns of the EU, arguing that convergence is incomplete, and the demands from … accession countries, claiming that monetary integration is optimal. Indicators are developed which measure convergence and … benefits from monetary integration. The more serious problem is a lack of convergence which could imply serious risks during …
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Markov or not Markov : this should be a question
Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - 2001
Although it is well known that Markov process theory, frequently applied in the literature on income convergence …
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Financial market development in host and source countries and its effects on bilateral FDI
Donaubauer, Julian; Neumayer, Eric; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2016
We estimate gravity-type models to assess the effects of financial market development in the host and source countries on bilateral FDI stocks. We address potential reverse causality, inter alia by performing instrumental variable estimations and restricting the sample to observations where...
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Foreign ownership and the extensive margins of exports : evidence for manufacturing enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2013
We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of countries it trades with. We construct a simple theoretical model of how foreign ownership may affect these extensive margins of exports and take this model to data from Germany, one...
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European integration deepening and widening : implications for Asia
Langhammer, Rolf J. - 1998
The paper discusses the relevance of past concerns about trade and foreign direct investment diversion to the detriment of Asian suppliers and hosts as a result of EU integration deepening and widening in the nineties. Based on recent empirical evidence, these concerns are rejected. As concerns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472114
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Determinants of FDI in developing countries : Has globalization changed the rules of the game?
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
There is a startling gap between, allegedly, globalization-induced changes in international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) and recent empirical evidence on the relative importance of determinants of FDI in developing countries. We show that surprisingly little has changed since...
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Estimating direct and indirect effects of foreign direct investment on firm productivity in the presence of interactions between firms
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2014
We implement a method to estimate the direct effects of foreign-ownership on foreign firms' productivity and the indirect effects (or spillovers) from the presence of foreign-owned firms on other foreign and domestic firms' productivity in a unifying framework, taking interactions between firms...
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Does corporate taxation deter multinationals? : evidence from a historic event in Ireland
Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2014
We use a unique exogenous corporate tax policy change in the Republic of Ireland to investigate how corporate taxation affects foreign direct investment at the extensive and intensive margin. To this end we construct exhaustive sectoral and plant level panel data and use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406858
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Catching up of emerging economies : the role of capital goods imports, FDI inflows, domestic investment and absorptive capacity
Glas, Alexander; Hübler, Michael; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2015
We assess the role of capital goods imports and inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI) as transmission channels through which major emerging economies (BRICs, i.e., Brazil, Russian Federation, India and China) could catch up with advanced source countries in terms of total factor...
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The influence of capital market integration on production and market structures
Koop, Michael J. - 2001
The paper analyzes the effects of increasing capital market integration on production and market structures, trade and capital flows as well as national and global welfare. In order to facilitate the analysis of the integration process, three stages of capital market integration are defined....
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