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Capital flow types, external financing needs, and industrial growth: 99 countries, 1991-2007
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
We examine the differential impact of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI inflows on 37 manufacturing industries … cross-sectional regressions of manufacturing industries' growth rates covering 17 years. Net portfolio debt inflows are … negatively associated with growth during the mid 1990s. The magnitudes of the negative effect of surges in portfolio debt inflows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287774
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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions ("M&As") and "greenfield" investment. A simple model captures the key difference between the two types of FDI: unlike greenfield investment, M&As partly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430093
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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches
Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2008
The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals that while much has already been achieved in both these economies, the Chinese reforms, especially with respect to manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807627
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Capital flows: Catalyst or hindrance to economic takeoffs?
Aizenman, Joshua; Sushko, Vladyslav - 2011
inflows of portfolio debt, portfolio equity, and FDI, controlling for country's stock of short-term external debt and … probability. Higher stock of short term external debt has been associated with a substantial negative effect on the probability of … a takeoff, and the effect of the short terms debt overhang is largest for Latin American countries. Yet, virtually all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287770
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Capital flows and economic growth in the era of financial integration and crisis: 1990 - 2010
Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin; Park, Donghyun - 2011
, portfolio investment, equity investment, and shortterm debt. We follow about 100 countries during 1990-2010 when emerging …. Finally, the relationship between growth and short-term debt is nil before the crisis, and negative during the crisis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288124
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Hobbes and the political economy of power
Wittman, Donald - 2006
This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate and current account/GDP exceed 10%. We investigate the size distribution and the durability of current account deficits during 1966-2005, and report the results of a simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322714
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Diffusion of Technology and Convergence of Income among Countries
Oz, Sumru - 2014
Theoretical models of growth reveal that either exogenous or endogenous, technology is the main driving force behind the long-run economic growth. Furthermore, in the endogenous growth framework, diffusion of technology is the basic mechanism of per capita income convergence among countries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500261
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Globalization and the sustainability of large current account imbalances: Size matters
Aizenman, Joshua; Sun, Yi - 2007
This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate and current account/GDP exceed 10%. We investigate the size distribution and the durability of current account deficits during 1966-2005, and report the results of a simulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285339
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The financial crisis and sizable international reserves depletion: From "fear of floating" to the "fear of losing international reserves"?
Aizenman, Joshua; Sun, Yi - 2009
This paper studies the degree to which Emerging Markets (EMs) adjusted to the global liquidity crisis by drawing down their international reserves (IR). Overall, we find a mixed and complex picture. Intriguingly, only about half of the EMs relied on depleting their international reserves as part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287786
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The financial crisis and sizable international reserves depletion: From "fear of floating" to the "fear of losing international reserves"?
Aizenman, Joshua; Sun, Yi - 2009
This paper studies the degree to which Emerging Markets (EMs) adjusted to the global liquidity crisis by drawing down their international reserves (IR). Overall, we find a mixed and complex picture. Intriguingly, only about half of the EMs relied on depleting their international reserves as part...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288129