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The effect of entrepreneurial activity on national economic growth
van Stel, André J.; Carree, Martin A.; Thurik, Roy - 2005
Entrepreneurial activity is generally assumed to be an important aspect of the organization of industries most conducive to innovative activity and unrestrained competition. This paper investigates whether total entrepreneurial activity influences GDP growth for a sample of 36 countries. We test...
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; Sorensen, … - 2013
We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm-level database. Our identification strategy relies on exploiting the difference in the amount of foreign investment by financial and industrial investors and simultaneously controlling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326288
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Born local: two avenues to internationalization
Ács, Zoltán J.; Terjesen, Siri - 2007
Are firms born Global? Because knowledge spillovers that lead to new venture creation are geographically constrained we believe that firms are born local. It follows that the decision to create sustainable new ventures is independent from the decision to interna-tionalize, even if that is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271773
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Developing Ireland: Committing to economic openness and building domestic institutional capabilities
Teague, Paul - 2009
This paper sets out to explain the factors behind Ireland's exceptional period of economic growth from the early 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273443
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Country role models: Synthesis of Ireland, Japan and Switzerland
Findlay, Ronald - 2010
This paper provides a synthesis of the three papers on the non-Nordic developed economies, Ireland, Japan and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280148
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Signals of foreign bank entry on real sector FDI and foreign trade and their impact on economic development in the New EU Member States
Roessl, Petra; Haiss, Peter - 2008
non-financial FDI and trade in Bulgaria and Croatia, but there are various directions in which developmental repercussions … can go and the impact on trade is not as significant as the effect on nonfinancial FDI. We argue that the relative impact … of FSFDI, real sector FDI and trade needs to be taken into consideration in shaping economic policies conducive to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301450
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Industry Patterns in Output, FDI and Trade: A comparison of CEECs with OECD and East Asian Countries
Wörz, Julia - 2005
This report analyses the link between the industrial allocation of FDI and economic development, using a newly … constructed data set on industrial FDI stocks for six individual manufacturing industries (food, textiles/wood, petroleum … patterns of these countries are described through economic indicators such as industrial output, employment, FDI, exports …
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The role of FDI in structural change: Evidence from Mexico
Escobar, Octavio; Mühlen, Henning - 2018
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico are substantial and play an important role in the Mexican economy since … landscape and sectoral structure in this host country. We illustrate that there is considerable variation in the amounts of FDI … there is a significant impact of FDI on structural change. We conduct an empirical analysis covering the period 2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903584
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The role of FDI in structural change: Evidence from Mexico
Escobar, Octavio; Mühlen, Henning - 2018
Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows to Mexico are substantial and play an important role in the Mexican economy since … landscape and sectoral structure in this host country. We illustrate that there is considerable variation in the amounts of FDI … there is a significant impact of FDI on structural change. We conduct an empirical analysis covering the period 2006 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913222
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The impact of institutional transformations on MNEs entrepreneurship in emerging economies
Adamoglou, Xanthippe; Hajidimitriou, Yannis - In: SPOUDAI - Journal of Economics and Business 71 (2021) 3/4, pp. 48-66
This paper examines how an emerging economy's institutional context motivates different forms of MNE entrepreneurship, which, subsequently, leads either to economic development or economic growth. To do so, the paper distinguishes emerging economies' institutional environment into a state of...
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