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Human Capital Development and FDI in Developing Countries
Majeed, Muhammad Tariq; Ahmad, Eatzaz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper evaluates the proposition that development of human capital can be instrumental in attracting FDI in developing countries by using fixed effects models on the panel data of 23 selected developing countries and 35 years (1970-2004). For the purpose, we employ two indicators of human...
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Education investissements directs étrangers et croissance économique réflexions pour le maroc
Jellal, Mohamed; Bouzahzah, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We present an endogenous growth model with technological externalities emitted the presence of the foreign direct investments. We showed that the net positive impact on the growth of these investments may be if and only if the host country such as Morocco has reached a minimal level of human...
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Credit Market Development and Human Capital Accumulation
Ho, Wai-Hong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
screening technology, a self selection equilibrium is achieved. We find that, at steady state, lenders will allocate more time … comparative static analysis show that improvements on borrowers' investment technology promote human capital accumulation but that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037719
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How Do Trade, Foreign Investment, and Technology Affect Employment Patterns in Organized Indian Manufacturing?
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The present study investigates into the impact of trade, foreign investment, and technology on three different … technology, and tested for a sample of Indian industries. The research suggests that trade has been employment promoting for … investment has been observed to be negative for contract and unskilled workers. The overall impact of technology encompassing in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514892
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How to apply trade theory to the German unification? Making sense of ‘comparative advantage in nothing’
Thomas, Ziesemer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999
We derive several cases of 'comparative advantage in nothing', which can be relevant for East Germany. The simplest case with little relevance is the HO assumption of identical technologies across regions implanted into the Ricardian model. The second is the case with full employment wages...
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Outward FDI and Knowledge Flows: A Study of the Indian Automotive Sector
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Singh, Neelam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619634
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Outward FDI and Knowledge Flows: A Study of the Indian Automotive Sector
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash Pradhan; Singh, Neelam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In recent years developing countries have emerged as significant participants in the OFDI (outward foreign direct investment) activities having the strategic asset seeking motive. Such OFDI which is assets exploiting cum augmenting involves potential two way cross border knowledge flows. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005620085
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Determinants of Innovative Activities: Evidence from Europe and Central Asia Region
Lau, Chi Keung Marco; Yang, Fu Steve; Zhang, Zhe; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Recent studies in the innovation literature reveal that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotes the innovation activities in the recipent country through spillover effects. In this paper we extend the existing literature by incooprating the corruption index in the estimation procedure. Using a...
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R&D Intensity and Financing Decisions: Evidence from European Firms
ELKEMALI, Taoufik; BEN REJEB, Aymen; MATOUSSI, Hamadi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines whether research and development (R&D) intensity affects the firm’s financing decisions. We use a sample of European firms in the period 2002-2011. We argue that R&D asset has three fundamentals characteristics that make it different from ordinary investment and constrain...
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Due diligence, research joint ventures, and incentives to innovate
Fabrizi, Simona; Lippert, Steffen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The decision to cooperate within R&D joint ventures is often based on `expert advice.' Such advice typically originates in a due diligence process, which assesses the R&D joint venture's profitability, for example, by appraising the achievability of synergies. We show that if the experts who...
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