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Female Business Leaders, Business and Cultural Environment, and Productivity Around the World

Fang, Sheng - 2020

Studies of female business leaders and economic performance are rarely conducted with worldwide observational data, and with considerations on the underlying cultural, institutional, and business environment. This paper uses worldwide, firm-level data from more than 100 countries to study how...

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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 …

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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....

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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...

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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...

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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 transactions that are difficult to monitor and classify by the home and host countries. In some cases, what is classified as foreign direct investment is rather "indirect foreign...

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Strategic Information Revelation and Capital Allocation

Pedraza, Alvaro - 2017

It is commonly believed that stock prices help firms' managers make more efficient real investment decisions, because … they aggregate information about fundamentals that is not otherwise known to managers. This paper identifies a limitation … informativeness depends on the quality of managers' prior information. In particular, managers with low quality information would like …

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The Quality of Budget Execution and its Correlates

Addison, Douglas M. - 2017

What determines the quality of budget execution around the world, measured in terms of a government's ability to …

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Do Private Water Utility Operators Care About Regulatory Agencies in Developing Countries?

Bertomeu Sanchez, Salvador - 2017

This paper shows that the creation of an independent regulatory agency is often not a necessary or sufficient condition to help attract private participation in the operation and financing of the water and sanitation sector in developing countries. However, the odds of an impact are...

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