Showing 1 - 10 of 426
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is like a chameleon, that changes its colour according to the context it is in. In the developed economy, it takes the form of sustainability and/ or philanthropy, whereas, in emerging economies, it speaks the language of religious, political and/or mandated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545935
Foreign subsidiary performance and market efficiency effects are estimated and confronted in this paper using a rich firm-level panel for Polish manufacturing. Besides estimating total factor productivity, other performance measures are calculated and contrasted such as labor productivity,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430827
This paper examines the firm-level determinants of foreign acquisitions of New Zealand companies, and the consequences for both the purchased firms and the workers within those firms. We follow a combined propensity score matching and difference-in- differences approach to identify and address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115631
This paper analyses regional growth in Eastern Europe in the second half of the 1990s, when regional disparities sharply increased. We aim to identify the factors behind growth and investigate in particular the role of (foreign) investment, education and innovation as well as geographical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301178
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie der Wechsel der vertretenen Regierungspartei in der Region und die Absorptionsfähigkeit von FDI das regionale Wirtschaftswachstum beeinflussen. Die empirische Analyse erfolgt auf regionaler Ebene für den Zeitraum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688281
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht erstmalig für die Ukraine und Polen, wie stark sich das Wirtschaftswachstum der räumlich benachbarten Regionen auf die Wachstumsrate einer Region auswirkt. Die empirische Analyse erfolgt für den Zeitraum 2004-2012 anhand des Instrumentalvariablenschätzers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011688282
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268707
Concerns about the duration of China's growth and hence the question of a permanent significant contribution of China … to world economic growth relate, amongst other things, to the problem of reducing regional disparity in China. While … China's high average growth is driven by a small number of rapidly developing provinces, the majority of provinces have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273441
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273849
This paper documents the financial and institutional developments of China during the past two decades, when China was … examine the relationship between financial development and economic growth in China by employing a panel sample covering 31 … markets, institutions, and instruments have been robustly associated with economic growth in China. – institutions ; growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284671