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Direct Foreign Investments And Productivity Growth In Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999
Sgard, Jérôme - 2001
The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP growth. However, this benefit is significant only...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477504
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Institutions matter: the case of Vietnam
Tran, Bich Thi; Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom - 2008
The paper investigates institutional reforms in Vietnam and their impact on the economic performance of firms. Using the provincial competitiveness index 2006 (PCI06) and firm-level data in Vietnam in 2005, the results show that provincial competitiveness is economically and statistically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451347
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Who, What, When, Why: Resource Economics Before the Fall
Wiener, Jonathan B. - 1998
microeconomic theory to these fundamental questions about resource management practises 'before the fall'. The essential argument is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468425
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Common Property: What Is It, What Is It Good For, and What Makes It Work?
McKean, Margaret A. - 1995
"This paper is one of a series of analyses that represent the first wave of work being performed by IFRI's collaborators. Each author draws upon the training and instrument of the IFRI program to address their particular research questions. Given the early stage of IFRI's implementation, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468320
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Behavioral Foundations of Reciprocity: Experimental Economics and Evolutionary Psychology
Hoffman, Elizabeth; McCabe, Kevin; Smith, Vernon - 1995
collect more money from the experimenter than noncooperative game theory predicts. As we interpret it, subject behavior in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468384
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Exploiting Common Resources with Capital-Intensive Technologies: The Role of External Forces
Engel, Stefanie; Lopez, Ramon - 2004
"Many natural resources can be effectively exploited mainly by using capital-intensive technologies. We develop a bargaining model with endogenous inside and outside options to analyze the interactions between local communities having at least some degree of informal claims over natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468413
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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland
Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994
"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian societies that operate at low levels of technology without the benefits of insurance, credit and other intertemporal markets. 1 Institutions, the formal and informal rules that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468491
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Ausländische Direktinvestitionen als Wachstumsmotor? - Eine Empirische Analyse am Beispiel Lateinamerikas
Hinrichs, Cord - 2005
kausale Beziehung zwischen ausländischen Direktinvestitionen (DI) und Wirtschaftswachstum in 6 lateinamerikanischen Ländern … aufgeworfen, wie die Interaktion zwischen DI und inländischem Wirtschaftswachstum zu sehen ist. Auch wenn in der theoretischen als … auch empirischen Literatur signifikante Belege für eine Verbindung zwischen DI und Wirtschaftswachstum zu finden sind, so …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476170
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Annual Hard Frosts and Economic Growth
Zuo, Xinjuan - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009449705
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Development and Gender Inequality ; Development and Gender Inequality
Lamanna, Francesca - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353250