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Pay more, earn less, work harder-new evidence on foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency in emerging markets

Jensen, Camilla - 2009

Foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency effects are estimated and confronted in this paper using a rich firm-level panel for Polish manufacturing. Besides estimating total factor productivity, other performance measures are calculated and contrasted such as labor productivity,...

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Foreign Acquisition and the Performance of New Zealand Firms

Fabling, Richard; Sanderson, Lynda - 2011

This paper examines the firm-level determinants of foreign acquisitions of New Zealand companies, and the consequences for both the purchased firms and the workers within those firms. We follow a combined propensity score matching and difference-in- differences approach to identify and address...

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EU-China trade and investment relations in challenging times

García Herrero, Alicia; Wolff, Guntram B.; Xu, Jianwei; … - 2020

This report examines key aspects of the European Union-China economic relationship, including trade, investment and … China's key strategic project overseas, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). We conclude that China is, and will continue to … direction of the United States-China relationship, the EU needs to explore options for fruitful co-existence with China. Trade …

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Penetrating the knowledge filter in "rust-belt" economies

Ács, Zoltán J.; Plummer, Lawrence A.; Sutter, Ryan - 2008

A new model of economic growth introduces the knowledge filter between new generic knowledge and economically-useful knowledge. It identifies both the formation of new ventures and the absorptive capacity of incumbent firms as the mechanisms that penetrate the knowledge filter. Recent empirical...

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Penetrating the "Knowledge Filter" in Regional Economies

Plummer, Lawrence A.; Ács, Zoltán J. - 2004

New knowledge in the form of products, processes and organizations leads to opportunities that can be exploited commercially. However, converting new ideas into economic growth requires turning new knowledge into economic knowledge that constitutes a commercial opportunity. Acs, Audretsch,...

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Dynamics of collaborative invention tracking growth of cooperative and total patents in the region

Bürger, Matthias - 2011

The paper targets the relationship between growth of cooperation and later growth of innovation at the regional level. Patent data for German regions and eleven subsequent years is used to identify collaborative activity as well as the innovative output in each region. The results confirm to...

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Is FDI a Safer Form of Financing?

Fernández-Arias, Eduardo; Hausmann, Ricardo - 2000

It has been common to attribute financial crises to short-term capital inflows, while foreign direct investment (FDI) is seen as a safer form of finance. The relationship between crises and the composition of capital flows is particularly relevant at present because the flow of capital to Latin...

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Financial Liberalization and Volatility in Emerging Market Economies

Aghion, Philippe; Bacchetta, Philippe; Banerjee, Abhijit - 1998

The recent East Asian crisis has highlighted the relationship between financial development and output volatility. In this essay we develop a simple model of a small open economy producing a tradeable good using a non-tradeable input and where firms access to borrowings and investment depends on...

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Aid, Governance, and Private Foreign Investment: Some Puzzling Findings and a Possible Explanation

Harms, Philipp; Lutz, Matthias - 2003

Does official aid pave the road for private foreign investment or does it suffocate private initiative by diverting resources towards unproductive activities? In this paper we explore this question using data for a large number of developing and emerging economies. Controlling for countries'...

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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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