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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 …

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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 …

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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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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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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...

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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

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Research and Development of an Optimally Regulated Monopolist with Unknown Costs

SAGLAM, ISMAIL - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies whether a monopolist with private marginal cost information has incentives to make cost-reducing innovations through research and development (R&D) when its output and price are regulated according to the incentive-compatible mechanism of Baron and Myerson (1982). Under...

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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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