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Foreign Direct Investment and Technology Transfer. The Case of the European Transition Countries and the Automotive Industry in the Czech Republic

Torlak geb. Cokoja, Elvisa - 2010

Technology transfer and the so-called productivity spillover-effects are important aspects of foreign direct investments regarding their contribution to the long-term development potential of the host countries.The effects of the foreign direct investments on the foreign and domestic companies...

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Inflation targeting and monetary integration in European emerging market economies

Felix Hammermann - 2008

This study addresses the potential trade-off between inflation and exchange rate targeting in former transition countries, which now may be labeled emerging market economies and which prepare for entry into the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Among this group of countries, some implemented...

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Firm-level exchange rate exposure in the Eurozone

Hutson, Elaine; O'Driscoll, Anthony

Using a sample of 1154 European firms from 11 countries, we show that firm-levelexchange exposure for Eurozone and non-Eurozone … European firms has increased sincethe introduction of the euro, but this rise was smaller for Eurozone than non … Eurozone countries, so the advent of the euroappears to have been associated with a shift in exchange risk from systematic to …

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A tentative exploration of the effects of Brexit on foreign direct investment vis-à-vis the United Kingdom

Almeida, Ana de; Sastre de Miguel, María Teresa; … - 2019

La integración en la Unión Europea (UE) ha impulsado la inversión extranjera directa (IED) hacia el Reino Unido, que mantiene un stock relativamente importante de entradas en forma de IED. Este ha aumentado notablemente desde 2005, alcanzando el 61% de su producto interior bruto (PIB) en...

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International oil and gas exploration and development: 1991

2008

This report starts where the previous quarterly publication ended. This first publication of a new annual series contains most of the same data as the quarterly report, plus some new material, through 1991. It also presents historical data covering a longer period of time than the previous...

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Privatization and the globalization of energy markets

2009

This report reviews recent global efforts to privatize energy resources and outlines the opportunities and challenges privatization has presented to U.S. and foreign multinational energy companies. The group of energy companies studied in this report includes the major U.S. petroleum companies...

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Effect of market structure on international coal trade

Kolstad, C.D.; Abbey, D.S. - 2009

This paper is concerned with the determinants of international steam-coal trade. Most work in projecting coal trade has been either qualitative (a consensus of experts) or, if quantitative, has been based on competitive spatial-equilibrium models. Unfortunately, the competitive model of trade...

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Exploring knowledge management to organizational performance outcomes in a transitional economy

Kiessling, Timothy; Richey, R. Glenn; Meng, Juan; … - 2009

The Eastern European Economies offer many major business opportunities but due to the transitional nature of their economies, these are highly complex and fraught with the socialist cultural disposition. There is a dearth of research into the nature of these opportunities/complexities,...

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Bridging the gap? Corruption, knowledge and foreign ownership

Driffield, N; Mickiewicz, T; Pal, S; Temouri, Y - 2010

We argue that in addition to host corruption per se, as accounted for by the existingliterature, an explanation of inter-country variation in FDI needs to account for the distance between the host and home corruption, which we call relative corruption. We use a large matched home-host firm-level...

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The Reorientation of Transition Countries’ Exports: Changes in Quantity, Quality and Variety

Kandogan, Yener - 2003

The paper analyzes the factors behind the reorientation of transition countries’ exports to their non-traditional partners outside their former block. First, the amount of reorientation is calculated using a gravity model. Then, reasons for the cross-country differences in the rate of closing...

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