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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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Organization of Innovation and Capital Markets

Orman, Cuneyt - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

There has been an explosion of innovation backed by venture capital since late 1970’s. Nonetheless, a great deal of innovation still occurs within large companies. In this paper, I investigate the factors that determine when innovation is performed by venture-backed firms and when by large...

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Il finanziamento degli investimenti in R&S. Gli effetti sulla crescita e sulla struttura finanziaria

Garofalo, Giuseppe; Morganti, Patrizio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The financing of innovation impacts on economic growth. What’s, among bank-based or market-based system, the best organizational form? The paper supports the view that both forms have to be merged into a unique approach (law and finance view) embracing not only the overall quality of the...

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