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New productivity drivers : revisiting the role of digital capital, FDI and integration at aggregate and sectoral levels

Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2020

The paper studies the drivers of productivity at country and sectoral levels over the period 2000-2017 with the focus on the impact of capital accumulation and structure. The analysis confirms an especially important role of ICT and intangible digital capital for productivity growth,...

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Reading the footprints : how foreign investors shape countries' participation in global value chains

Buelens, Christian; Tirpák, Marcel - 2017

We show that traditional gravity variables play a significant role in explaining trade flows related to global value chain participation. We find evidence that cooperation costs - measured by linguistic and geographical proximity - are more relevant for trade that reflects cross-border...

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Can multinationals withstand growing trade barriers?

Ghodsi, Mahdi; Vujanović, Nina; Landesmann, Michael - 2024

Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary...

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Interactions between global value chains and foreign direct investment : a network approach

Adarov, Amat - 2021

The world economy is increasingly shaped by cross-border production and investment activity. The paper uses complex network analysis along with panel data econometric techniques to study the structure and interactions between the networks of global value chains (GVC) and foreign direct...

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Inequality and Globalization in Europe

Lee, Jong-Eun - 2014

The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of globalization on the income inequality in Europe. The panel … income inequality and that the Kuznets hypothesis is valid. It offers a broad picture of growth, equity, and globalization in …

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Investment Treaties and the Globalisation of State Capitalism : Opportunities and Constraints for Host States

Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N. - 2012

investment treaty provisions to ensure a prudent and coherent governance of the globalization of state capitalism …

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Evaluating Opportunities of Vietnam to Participate in the Global Value Chains of U.S's Multinational Corporations

Nguyen, Khoi - 2014

The global value chains (GVCs) obviously associated with the role of Multinational Corporations (MNCs). MNCs are the main entities which create global value chains by building up linkages between the stages of a chain in different countries such as plant construction, research, product design,...

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Globalization and Foreign Direct Investment in the GCC Countries : A Recipe for Post COVID-19 Recovery

Dempere, Juan; Modugu, Kennedy Prince - 2022

This study investigates the long-run relationship between the de jure economic, political, and social globalization and … estimation show that the de jure economic and social globalization have a significant positive impact on the region’s foreign … direct investment inflows. The impact of the de jure political globalization on foreign direct investment is statistically …

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Export Structure, FDI and Child Labour

Busse, Matthias; Braun, Sebastian - 2003

The paper addresses the linkage between certain aspects of the increasing economic integration of world markets and the level of child labour. We empirically examine, first, the often-cited conventional wisdom that multinational enterprises invest in countries where the extent of child labour is...

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Functional specialisation in EU value chains : methods for identifying EU countries' roles in international production networks

Kordalska, Aleksandra; Olczyk, Magdalena; Stöllinger, Roman - 2022

Geographically dispersed production networks have allowed countries to specialise in different functions of the value chain. By making use of two methodologies for quantifying the magnitude of functional specialisation - one based on trade flows and one based on FDI flows - detailed profiles of...

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