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Exchange rates and outward foreign direct investment: US FDI in emerging economies
Udomkerdmongkol, Manop; Morrissey, Oliver; Görg, Holger - 2008
The paper investigates the impact of exchange rates on US foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to a sample of 16 emerging market countries using annual panel data for the period 1990-2002. Three separate exchange rate effects are considered: the value of the local currency (a cheaper currency...
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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry in Ireland. Our data consists of a large sample of plants andtheir complete grant history...
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Multinationals as Stabilizers?Economic Crisis and Plant Employment Growth
Álvarez, Roberto; Görg, Holger - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper examines the link between multinational enterprises and employment growth atthe plant-level. We investigate in detail the comparative response of multinationals anddomestic firms to an economic crisis, using the empirical setting of a well defined case ofeconomic slowdown in Chile as...
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The heterogeneity of FDI in Sub-Saharan Africa : how do the horizontal productivity effects of emerging investors differ from those of traditional players?
Pfeiffer, Birte; Görg, Holger; Pérez-Villar, Lucia - 2015
This paper analyzes the horizontal productivity effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) from industrialized and …, and North Africa. We find strong evidence of horizontal productivity spillovers to domestic firms derived from foreign …-firm presence. However, these effects are clearly dependent on domestic firms’ absorptive capacity. The largest productivity effects …
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Outsourcing, foreign ownership and productivity : evidence from UK establishment level data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2003
's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
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Price cost margins and exporting behaviour : evidence from firm level data
Görg, Holger; Warzynski, Frederic - 2003
exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also …
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Exports, international investment, and plant performance : evidence from a non-parametric test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
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South-South FDI : is it really different?
Görg, Holger; Gold, Robert; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. However, we find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011658781
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South-South FDI : is it really different?
Gold, Robert; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - 2017
productivity growth between Northern and Southern FDI, irrespective of how the latter is defined. We also find that employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820905
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Corruption and productivity : firm-level evidence
De Rosa, Donato; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 235 (2015) 2, pp. 115-138
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