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Burchardi, Konrad - 2016

We use 130 years of data on historical migrations to the United States to show a causal effect of the ancestry composition of US counties on foreign direct investment (FDI) sent and received by local firms. To isolate the causal effect of ancestry on FDI, we build a simple reduced-form model of...

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From Proof of Concept to Scalable Policies : Challenges and Solutions, with an Application

Banerjee, Abhijit V. - 2016

Pratham's “Teaching at the Right Level” methodology into elementary schools in India. The methodology consists of re …

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On Returns Differentials

Curcuru, Stephanie E. - 2013

Estimates of U.S. returns differentials have ranged from exorbitant to quite small, in part because of their volatility coupled with the relatively short time series available. We shed light on underlying drivers of returns differentials by presenting a number of decompositions: a by-asset-class...

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How Big are the Gains from International Financial Integration?

Hoxha, Indrit - 2010

The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...

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Technology Capital and the U.S. Current Account

McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2010

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) estimates the return on investments of foreign subsidiaries of U.S. multinational companies over the period 1982--2006 averaged 9.4 percent annually after taxes; U.S. subsidiaries of foreign multinationals averaged only 3.2 percent. Two factors distort...

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Chinese Outwards Mercantilism – the Art and Practice of Bundling

Aizenman, Joshua - 2015

The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) brought to the fore the limits of the Chinese export led-growth strategy and the need for Chinese rebalancing of its international business approaches. Our paper takes stock of what may be the new chapter of Chinese outward-mercantilism, which aims at securing a...

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Getting Better or Feeling Better? How Equity Investors Respond to Investment Experience

Campbell, John Y. - 2014

Using a large representative sample of Indian retail equity investors, many of them new to the stock market, we show that both years of investment experience and feedback from investment returns have significant effects on investor behavior, favored stock styles, and performance. We identify two...

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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?

Harrison, Ann E. - 2011

, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …

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Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R. - 2010

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

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Emerging Market Business Groups, Foreign Investors, and Corporate Governance

Khanna, Tarun - 2010

-run business groups, domestic financial institutions, and foreign financial institutions. Using data from India in the early 1990s …

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