, namely the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. The paper also discusses the reforms of institutional (domestic and … International Monetary Fund, and the Group of 20. The impacts of the 2008-2009 financial crisis on the PRC and India are noted and …

, namely the People's Republic of China (PRC) and India. The paper also discusses the reforms of institutional (domestic and … International Monetary Fund, and the Group of 20. The impacts of the 2008-2009 financial crisis on the PRC and India are noted and …

investment (FDI) on cross-country differences in productivity. We construct a spatial Gini coefficient of labor productivity … properties to explore the relations of FDI and GDI with productivity. Although we find little evidence of FDI flows - which have … increased manifold in last three decades - reducing inequality in productivity for the entire sample, our analysis shows that …

This paper calculates Theil’s entropy index to measure the extent of productivity differences across 92 countries for … the period from 1970 to 2003. While there is evidence of increasing differences in productivity across these countries, we …. The results of our multivariate time series analysis also suggest that FDI increases productivity differences among low …

This inquiry was inspired by the quest to examine the interaction effects of economic globalization and governance on … the KOF institute. Based on the estimated results, the empirical findings indicate that changes in economic globalization …. Consequently, the interaction between economic globalization and governance had a positive and significant long-run effect on the …

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the … home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs … suggests that the effect of offshoring manufacturing and services on total factor productivity (TFP) is positive and larger …

foreign firms, the impact of spillover effect of inward FDI is contingent upon the productivity gap between the domestic firms … productivity gap between domestic low-productivity firms and foreign firms and works conversely for high-productivity firms. This … result suggests that once the productivity gap widens, the entry of foreign firms will increase the efficiency of high-productivity …

This study investigates: (i) the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on total factor productivity (TFP) and …