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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share -- Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2017
comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an … important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However … productivity, which can be attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms …
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Macroeconomic Volatility after Trade and Capital Account Liberalization
Pancaro, Cosimo - 2017
What are the equilibrium effects of trade and capital liberalization on consumption smoothing? This question is addressed by studying the response to productivity shocks in a baseline two country, two goods, incomplete market model, where foreign borrowing is secured by collateral. The paper...
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Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms'Foreign Technology Choice?
Bas, Maria - 2017
productivity level. Relying on India's trade liberalization episode in the early 1990s, this paper demonstrates that the …
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Institutional and Structural Determinants of Investment Worldwide
Lim, Jamus Jerome - 2017
This paper considers institutional and structural factors associated with investment activity in a panel of up to 129 developed and developing countries. It introduces these factors to a standard neoclassical investment function for open economies, and find that financial development and...
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The Effects of Financial Development on Foreign Direct Investment
Desbordes, Rodolphe - 2017
This paper examines how financial development influences foreign direct investment. The direct and indirect sector-specific effects that source countries' financial development and destination countries' financial development can have on foreign direct investment are first identified in a...
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Does Services Liberalization Benefit Manufacturing Firms? Evidence from the Czech Republic
Arnold, Jens Matthias - 2016
While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. Using firm-level data from the Czech Republic for the period 1998-2003, this study examines the link between services sector...
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What Determines Entrepreneurial Outcomes in Emerging Markets? The Role of Initial Conditions
Ayyagari, Meghana - 2017
the early lifecycle of firms across diverse institutional environments of regions in India. It finds that the size and …
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
the informal sector is moving from rural to urban locations. Although the secular trend for India's manufacturing … strains than those focused only on the formal sector. Cities are evolving in India from places of goods production to forges …
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What Makes Cities More Competitive? Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India
Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2017
, boost economic growth, and promote job creation. The authors examine the spatial location of entrepreneurs in India in … patterns are true for manufacturing and services. These relationships are much stronger in India than those found for the … United States. The authors also find strong evidence of agglomeration economies in India's manufacturing sector. This …
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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2016
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...
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