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Endogenous Market Structure and Foreign Market Entry
Markusen, James R.; Stähler, Frank - 2021
Models dealing with cross-border acquisitions versus greenfield investment usually assume that the entry of a foreign firm into a market has effects on the outputs of all domestic firms in that market, but exit or entry of local firms is not considered. The purpose of this paper is to re-examine...
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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms
Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2013
A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...
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Multinational Expansion in Time and Space
Garetto, Stefania; Oldenski, Lindsay; Ramondo, Natalia - 2022
This paper studies the expansion patterns of the multinational enterprise (MNE) in time and space. Using a long panel of US MNEs, we document that MNE affiliates usually start with sales exclusively to the host market and eventually enter export markets, and that this extensive margin of...
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Heterogeneity and the FDI Versus Export Decision of Japanese Manufacturers
Head, Keith; Ries, John C. - 2021
We investigate whether productivity differences explain why some manufacturers sell only to the domestic market while others serve foreign markets through exports and/or FDI. When overseas production offers no cost advantages, our model predicts that investors should be more productive than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013310603
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Climate and Civil War : Is the Relationship Robust?
Burke, Marshall - 2010
-average temperatures and the incidence of civil war in Africa (Burke et al. 2009). These findings have recently been challenged by Buhaug …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137308
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The Contribution of Chinese FDI to Africa's Pre Crisis Growth Surge
Weisbrod, Aaron - 2011
In the 3 years before the 2008 Financial Crisis, GDP growth in sub Saharan Africa (averaged over individual economies … small, portion of the elevated growth in sub Saharan Africa in the three years before the Financial Crisis and also in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119043
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The African Growth Miracle
Young, Alwyn - 2012
Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods, the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living standards have, for the past two decades, been growing...
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The Recent Growth Boom in Developing Economies : A Structural Change Perspective
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
experience. In contrast to the East Asian experience, none of the recent growth accelerations in Latin America, Africa, or South … rapid within-sector labor productivity growth (Latin America) or growth-increasing structural change (Africa), but rarely … explain this anomaly by arguing that the forces that promoted structural change in Africa originated on the demand side …
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Measuring Economic Growth from Outer Space
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2010
GDP growth is often measured poorly for countries and rarely measured at all for cities or subnational regions. We propose a readily available proxy: satellite data on lights at night. We develop a statistical framework that uses lights growth to augment existing income growth measures, under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151806
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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa
Bates, Robert - 2007
Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin … America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities … about a half-century (lost decades). The parallels suggest that Africa might be exiting from a period of post …
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