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Financial development, globalization, and structural transformation in developing countries
Avoumatsodo, Komla - 2023
Rodrik (2016) pointed out that late industrializing countries are experiencing a lower peak at lower income levels in the manufacturing employment share hump-shaped path. The present study develops a theoretical model to analyze the dynamics of industrialization and deindustrialization in...
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Capital dynamics, global value chains, competitiveness and barriers to FDI and capital accumulation in the EU
Adarov, Amat; Stehrer, Robert - 2020
investment using panel data techniques. Among other results, we confirm the high importance of tangible and intangible ICT … ICT investment, tackling the barriers to ICT adoption and broad-based digitalisation are critical for the EU in order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232879
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Global Value Chains and the Business Cycle
Ferrari, Alessandro - 2020
I investigate the effect of industries and countries position in global value chains on the transmission of final demand shocks and the cyclicality and volatility of trade. Relying on a production network model with propagation via procyclical inventory adjustment, I show how shocks can magnify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012851363
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The link between financial globalisation and integration into global value chains and macroeconomic impacts
Hölzl, Werner - 2021
This paper examines the association between participation in global value chains and financial globalisation measured by international net and capital flows. The results show that financial globalisation and the rise of global value chains are related but not two sides of the same coin. In fact,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584810
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Trade, global value chains and development : what role for national development banks?
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 89 (2020) 3, pp. 9-33
not provide sufficient credit for investment. National development banks play a key role in facilitating the economic …
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Trade, global value chains and development : what role for national development banks?
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg - 2020
upgrading. Foreign direct investment only partially helps to overcome this problem. Second, low trust in national currencies in … the Global South leads to distorted financial markets which do not provide sufficient credit for investment. As part of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231981
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Assessing Asia : Sub-Saharan Africa global value chain linkages
Tang, Heiwai; Zeng, Douglas Zhihua; Zeufack, Albert G. - 2020
This paper studies the relationship between Asia’s economic engagements in Africa and individual African nations’ participation in global value chains (GVC) over the past two decades. We find that while overall exports from Africa to Asia are still highly concentrated in resource-intensive...
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Regional Trade and Investment Value Chains in South Asia : Perspectives From Pakistani Enterprises
Ahmed, Syed Shujaat - 2020
Direct Investment, non-tariff barriers and lack of banking channels. These restrictions are not only affecting the regional … conducted interviews of business community in Karachi and Peshawar regarding regional trade, investment and value chains … of lower trade and investment volume. Engaging in value chains is a way forward to promote trade flows and regional …
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Economic Impacts of Global Terrorism : From Munich to Bali
Barth, James R.; Li, Tong; McCarthy, Don; Phumiwasana, … - 2006
This paper examines the impact of terrorism on economic growth and capital formation using data for 152 countries from 1970 to 2003.During the past thirty-five years, the world has witnessed nearly twenty thousand terrorist incidents. The increasingly global scope of terrorism has raised...
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Backward versus forward integration of firms in global value chains
Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina; Masllorens, Gerard - 2021
depend on the relative investment intensity of the producer and the supplier so as to align investment incentives and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533967