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What role for Chinese FDI in Africa? : new survey evidence from Ethiopia and Ghana

Ackah, Charles; Alemayehu Geda Fole; Görg, Holger; … - 2024

, in particular between Chinese and non-Chinese firms. Based on a firm level survey on Ethiopia and Ghana, we found that … countries. There is little difference between Chinese and non-Chinese foreign firms in such technology and managerial skill … & vertical spillover, directly adopting techniques). However, we found for Ghana that Chinese firms have more suppliers but are …

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Organizational Forms for Global Engagement of Firms

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Görg, Holger - 2009

Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a wide set of alternatives of organizational form. We illustrate this firstly using plant level data which allows us to distinguish firms that serve only...

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Organizational forms for global engagement of firms

Bogheas, Sprios (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor) - 2008

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The market disciplining effects of FDI : does the mode of entry matter?

Maioli, Sara; Ferrett, Ben; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2006

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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export markets entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 116 (2015), pp. 254-269

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The Market Disciplining Effects of FDI : Does the Mode of Entry Matter?

Maioli, Sara - 2008

We investigate both theoretically and empirically the competitive discipline effect exerted by FDI on plant-level price-cost margins. Using plant level data for manufacturing industries in the United Kingdom we find robust evidence supporting our theoretical predictions: greenfield FDI has a...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Competition and Social Expenditure

Görg, Holger; Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia - 2008

The aim of this paper is to make a first step towards studying the role of social expenditure and its interaction with corporate taxation in determining the destination of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Using panel data for 18 OECD countries and measuring the extent of social welfare...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2008

This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic establishments benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI. We analyse this issue using establishment level data for the electronics and engineering sectors in the UK. We distinguish the effect of FDI...

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Foreign Direct Investment, Spillovers and Absorptive Capacity : Evidence from Quantile Regressions

Girma, Sourafel - 2016

This paper focuses on the role of absorptive capacity in determining whether or not domestic firms benefit from productivity spillovers from FDI using establishment level data for the UK. We allow for different effects of FDI on establishments located at different quantiles of the productivity...

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Can Trade Really Hurt? An Empirical Follow-Up on Samuelson’s Controversial Paper

Bbitzer, Jurgen; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Görg, Holger - 2009

and, more specifically, China …

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