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Team Composition and External Network
Meyerson, Eva M. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1991
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818462
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South-South FDI and Development in East Asia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
This paper attempts to measure the size of South-South FDI in developing East Asia and the trends in it, and the characteristics of the investing countries and the investments themselves. It also summarizes the findings of studies in individual countries of the effects of these investments. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321785
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FDI and Growth in East Asia: Lessons for Indonesia
Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
Foreign direct investment has been important in the economic growth and global economic integration of developing countries over the last decades. Both Northeast and Southeast Asia, especially the latter, have been part of this development with increasing inflows of FDI and greater foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675723
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Growth and the Public Sector: A Critique of the Critics
Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1997
In a recent review article Jonas Agell, Thomas Lindh and Henry Ohlsson (1997) claim that theoretical and empirical evidence does not allow any conclusion on whether there is a relationship between the rate of economic growth and the size of the public sector. They illustrate their conclusion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645383
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Growth Effects of Government Expenditure and Taxation in Rich Countries
Fölster, Stefan; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
A number of cross-country comparisons do not find a robust negative relationship between government size and economic growth. In part this may reflect the prediction in economic theory that a negative relationship should exist primarily for rich countries with large public sectors. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645403
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Government Size and Growth: A Survey and Interpretation of the Evidence
Bergh, Andreas; Henrekson, Magnus - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach—of limiting the focus to studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788635
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Social Networks
de Marti, Joan; Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2009
We survey the literature on social networks by putting together the economics, sociological and physics … network formation. While the physics/applied mathematics approach is capable of reproducing most observed networks, it does … not explain why they emerge. On the contrary, the economics approach is very precise in explaining why networks emerge but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502564
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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This compulsory and binding two-level mechanism for the adjudication of disputes between WTO Members is the most active among international courts. The functioning of the DS system has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386417
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Reaping the Benefits of Deeper Euro-Med Integration Through Trade Facilitation
Bourdet, Yves; Persson, Maria - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
The current political turmoil in the Arab world has contributed to renewed interest in the Barcelona Process. This paper explores whether deeper integration in the form of trade facilitation – i.e. improved and simplified trade procedures – could be an important part of a reform agenda....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283230
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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995–2006: Some Descriptive Statistics
Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
The purpose of this paper is to report some initial findings based on the WTO Dispute Settlement Data Set (Ver. 2.0) that the authors have compiled for the World Bank. The data set contains approximately 28 000 observations on the workings of the Dispute Settlement (DS) system. It covers all 351...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419503