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While quantifying the foreign ownership premium has received a lot of attention in the empirical literature, there is only little known about productivity variations between foreign affiliates of multinational firms. In order to enhance the understanding of the economic causes of this...
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direct investment ; productivity spillover ; investor country characteristics …
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This paper investigates the impact of broadband availability on economic activity as measured by local employment rates. Using panel data on broadband coverage in 8,460 West German municipalities for the period from 2005 to 2009, we find, in fixed effects regressions, an overall positive, but...
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arising out of the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals is the call for a shift to clean energy technologies. The …
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This paper will put forward a number of economic considerations raised by the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the external strong participation, on the side of the latter, of the United States and its NATO allies. We begin with some observations regarding the United States, followed by the...
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This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … turned from an advantage for economic development to a burden after World War II. The dominant position of heavy industry …
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