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Source of finance, growth and firm size: Evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - 2009
Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the latter. Generally, it finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273480
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Source of finance, growth and firm size : evidence from China
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel - 2009
Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the latter. Generally, it finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845179
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Source of Finance, Growth and Firm Size - Evidence from China
Du, Jun - 2008
Using a comprehensive firm-level dataset spanning the period 1998-2005, this paper provides a thorough investigation of the relationship between firm size, total factor productivity growth and financial structure in China, controlling for the endogeneity of the latter. Generally, it finds...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768346
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265597
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Foreign direct investment, access to finance, and innovation activity in Chinese enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2008
This paper investigates the link between inward FDI and innovation activity in China, using a very comprehensive and … also find that inward FDI at the sectoral level is positively associated with domestic innovative activity only if firms … inward FDI into technology transfer and FDI affecting domestic credit opportunities and find that the latter is of very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272946
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Global Engagement and Returns Volatility
Girma, Sourafel; Lancheros, Sandra; Riaño, Alejandro - 2015
This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms’ stock returns. The two margins of global engagement we consider, namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431195
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531694
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FDI, linkages and the efficiency of state-owned enterprises in China
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan - In: The journal of development studies : JDS 44 (2008) 5, pp. 728-749
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003738681
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Regional foreign direct investment and wage spillovers : plant level evidence from the UK electronics industry
Driffield, Nigel L.; Girma, Sourafel - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789928
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Exporting, cross-border investment and employment dynamics : an empirical investigation
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan - In: International trade issues, (pp. 205-226). 2006
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