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Book Translations as Idea Flows : The Effects of the Collapse of Communism on the Diffusion of Knowledge
Abramitzky, Ran - 2014
We use book translations as a new measure of international idea flows and study the effects of Communism's collapse in Eastern Europe on these flows. Using novel data on 800,000 translations and difference-in-differences approaches, we show that while translations between Communist languages...
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Growth, Initial Conditions, Law and Speed of Privatization in Transition Countries : 11 Years Later
Godoy, Sergio - 2006
This paper examines alternative hypotheses concerning the determinants of success in the transition from Communism to the market. In particular, we look at whether speed of privatization, legal institutions or initial conditions are more important in explaining the growth of the transition...
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The Transition Economies After Ten Years
Fischer, Stanley - 2000
While output declined in virtually all transition economies in the initial years, the speed and extent of the recovery that followed has varied widely across these countries. The contrast between the more and less successful transitions, the latter largely in the former Soviet Union, raises many...
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Household Savings in Transition Economies
Denizer, Cevdet - 1998
Based on matching household surveys for three central European countries, Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland, we explore the determinants of household saving rates in transition economies. We find savings rates to increase strongly in relative income and to be significantly higher for households...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472348
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Globalization and innovation in emerging markets
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy - 2008
between globalization and innovation does not differ across the manufacturing and service sectors …Globalization brings opportunities and pressures for domestic firms in emerging markets to innovate and improve their …, vertical linkages with foreign firms, and international trade on several types of innovation by domestic firms. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464166
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Do Institutions Cause Growth?
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2004
We revisit the debate over whether political institutions cause economic growth, or whether, alternatively, growth and human capital accumulation lead to institutional improvement. We find that most indicators of institutional quality used to establish the proposition that institutions cause...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468125
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Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space
Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2013
-border merger and acquisitions data support the model's prediction that horizontal FDI grows relatively faster than exports in …
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2009
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
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Internationalized Production in World Output
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1995
,' which are about 60 percent of world output. Given all the attention that 'globalization' has received from scholars … to single geographical locations and home country ownership. Internationalization of production is clearly growing in …
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The Internationalization of Production
Lipsey, Robert E. - 1989
internationalization, after growing until the 1970s, has stagnated or decreased somewhat. The level of internationalization of U.S. firms …
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