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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2017
The paper examines the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a new cross-country panel dataset on the distribution of income and expenditure. It uses an econometric methodology to gauge whether a larger middle class has a causal effect on policy and...
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The Domestic Segment of Global Supply Chains in China Under State Capitalism
Tang, Heiwai - 2017
This paper proposes methods to incorporate firm heterogeneity in the standard input-output table-based approach to portray the domestic segment of global value chains in a country. The analysis uses Chinese firm census data for the manufacturing and service sectors, along with constrained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973030
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What Investors Want : Perceptions and Experiences of Multinational Corporations in Developing Countries
Kusek, Peter - 2018
This paper discusses the results of a survey of multinational corporations with affiliates in developing countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and decision making across the stages of the investment cycle: attraction, entry and establishment, operations and expansion, linkages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923417
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Arm's-Length Trade : A Source of Post-Crisis Trade Weakness
Lakatos, Csilla - 2017
Trade growth has slowed sharply since the global financial crisis. U.S. trade data highlights that arm's-length trade--trade between unaffiliated firms--accounts disproportionately for the overall post-crisis trade slowdown. This is partly because arm's-length trade depends more heavily than...
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Beyond Capital : Monitoring Development Outcomes of Multinational Enterprises
Lejarraga, Iza - 2018
and 10 areas that matter for development. Building on decade-long data collection by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906342
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How Do Multinationals Report Their Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts? Evidence from Global Reporting Initiative Data
Winkler, Deborah E. - 2017
This paper examines the role of multinational enterprises in sustainability reporting. The study assesses how multinational enterprise status correlates with a company's average disclosure rate and probability of reporting on economic, labor and social, environmental, and governance indicators....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941390
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
Alfaro, Laura - 2017
This paper examines how different establishments performed during the recent global financial crisis, focusing on the role of foreign ownership. The paper investigates how foreign ownership affected establishments' responses to negative economic shocks, using a cross-country panel dataset with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975504
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International Harmonization of Product Standards and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
Reyes, Daniel - 2017
As free trade areas have proliferated and statutory tariffs have been dramatically reduced in recent decades, non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to international trade have risen in importance. Destination-specific product standards are one of the major types of NTBs as they impose additional costs on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975976
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What to Do When Foreign Direct Investment is Not Direct or Foreign : FDI Round Tripping
Aykut, Dilek; Sanghi, Apurva; Kosmidou, Gina - 2017
As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014121615
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly … relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the … way it is often measured, it has also led to the misperception that financial globalization in emerging markets has been …
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