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This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
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This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot competition in intermediate good production. Final production is located in Western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern...
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We implement capital in an endogenous separations New Keynesian matching model. In contrast to the vintage capital … theory, we suggest a more general approach, such that workers have unrestricted access to a proportional share of the capital … stock. We find that the introduction of capital generates an important channel for the transmission of aggregate …
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Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms that serve only...
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This paper analyzes a stylized model of international capital mobility and diffusion of embodied technologies from … attract foreign capital and embodied technologies, if its absorptive capacity is too low. The paper reconciles the view that … share of foreign capital. The speed of technology diffusion is higher in small economic regions with high population …
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We study the North-South diffusion of technologies embodied in internationally mobile capital in a framework of … level of the absorptive capacity (human capital, infrastructure, legal framework, etc.) in the South. Performing own … innovations in the South narrows the technology gap only in the short-run. An optimal development policy requires more capital to …
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This paper introduces intra- and inter-sectoral technology diffusion via FDI and imports into a recursive-dynamic CGE model for climate policy analyses. It analyzes China's accession to a Post Kyoto emission regime that keeps global emissions from 2012 on constant. Due to ongoing energy...
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This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct investments (FDI) in the US. In contrast to earlier work, this paper puts special emphasis on controlling for Marshallian externalities and other intra- and inter-regional spillovers...
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This study employs state-level panel data to explore the relationship between inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous...
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We focus on investor-state dispute settlement provisions contained in various, though far from all, bilateral investment treaties as a possible determinant of BIT-related effects on bilateral FDI flows. Our estimation results prove to be sensitive to the specification of these provisions as well...
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