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The Effect of Direct Foreign Investment on Domestic Firms: Evidence from Firm Level Panel Data in Emerging Economies
Konings, Jozef - eSocialSciences - 2009
productivity performance of domestic firms in three emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe, Bulgaria, Romania and Poland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458161
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A Tradeoff between the Output and Current Account Effects of Pension Reform
Catalan, Mario; Magud, Nicolas E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
We compare the long-term output and current account effects of pension reforms that increase the retirement age with those of reforms that cut pension benefits, conditional on reforms achieving similar fiscal targets. We show the presence of a policy trade-off. Pension reforms that increase the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790246
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Twin deficits: new evidence from a developing (oil vs. non-oil) countries’ perspective
Eldemerdash, Hany; Metcalf, Hugh; Maioli, Sara - In: Empirical Economics 47 (2014) 3, pp. 825-851
We test the relationship between the current account and fiscal policy for a group of small open developing economies with fixed exchange rates some of which are oil exporters. Specifically, we test the viewpoint of a Ricardian infinite-horizon representative agent model in which lower public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010994453
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External Balance Adjustment: An Intra-National and International Comparison
Smith, Constance - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2011
Large external imbalances have become a policy concern. This study investigates the determinants of external balances for regions within a single country — Canadian provinces — as well as for a sample of 18 OECD countries. External balance adjustment may differ for provinces since there are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318571
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Does Financial and Goods Market Integration Matter for the External Balance? A Comparison of OECD Countries and Canadian Provinces
Smith, Constance - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2010
Large current account deficits have become a policy concern. The trend toward international capital market liberalization has improved access to foreign pools of saving which has allowed the expansion of current account deficits. There are minimal barriers to capital flows within a country, so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472645
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Indian bank efficiency and productivity changes with undesirable outputs: A disaggregated approach
Fujii, Hidemichi; Managi, Shunsuke; Matousek, Roman - In: Journal of Banking & Finance 38 (2014) C, pp. 41-50
The objective of this study is to examine technical efficiency and productivity growth in the Indian banking sector over the period from 2004 to 2011. We apply an innovative methodological approach introduced by Chen et al. (2011) and Barros et al. (2012), who use a weighted Russell directional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719840
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Bulgaria; 2012 Article IV Consultation--Staff Report; Public Information; and Statement by the Executive Director for Bulgaria
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2012
Bulgaria did not have any exchange rate crisis, international bailout, bank intervention, or build-up of public debt …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011245064
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Intra-industry trade in Romania: analysis of the automobile parts and accessories sector
Surugiu, Marius-Razvan; Surugiu, Camelia - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 166-179
sector. The trade in this sector between Romania and 12 countries (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic … consideration the trade volume with Romania, a pooled ordinary least squares model being created for the period 1995–2008. The … domestic product values between Romania and other country have a negative sign, even if, for the second variable, we expected a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130183
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International trade patterns and labour markets – an empirical analysis for EU member states
Zeddies, Goetz - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 96-115
During the last decades, international trade flows of the industrialised countries became more and more intra-industry. At the same time, employment perspectives particularly of the low skilled by tendency deteriorated in these countries. This phenomenon is often traced back to the fact that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011130185
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Controversial issues in factors determining intra-industry trade
Ferto, Imre; Soós, Károly Attila - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 4 (2012) 1/2, pp. 132-148
We examine some controversial country-specific factors influencing vertical and horizontal intra-industry trade including foreign direct investment and income distributions. As concerns, the effect of differences in countries’ levels of economic development (richness), both theories and...
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