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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations : Unbundling Spatial Lags
Poelhekke, Steven - 2014
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...
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Human Capital Spillovers and Regional Development
Sanso-Navarro, Marcos - 2016
geographical dimension into their newly constructed database and empirical analysis. Our estimation results corroborate both the …
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Productivity spillovers from FDI : a firm-level cross-country analysis
Ahn, JaeBin; Aiyar, Shekhar; Presbitero, Andrea - 2024
This paper provides cross-country firm-level evidence on productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI … labour productivity we find: i) positive intra-industry spillover effects for firms located in advanced countries, and ii …
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Multinational firms and business cycle transmission : conference paper
Menno, Dominik - 2014 - This version: February 3, 2014
This paper studies the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the transmission of international business cycles. I document for the G7 countries between 1991 and 2006 that increases in bilateral FDI linkages are associated with more synchronized investment cycles. I also find that the...
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Comparative Advantage, Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Average Industry Productivity : Theory and Evidence
Jang, Yong Joon; Hyun, Hea-Jung - 2017
productivity, both theoretically and empirically. In the theoretical framework, we place Irarrazabal, Moxnes and Opromolla’s (2009 … monopolistically competitive firms and comparative advantage; and show that ex ante high average industry productivity triggered by … firm self-selection enhances ex post average industry productivity during the process of increase in FDI. Using Korean …
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Business Cycles and FDI : Evidence from German Sectoral Data
Buch, Claudia M. - 2016
Globalization has effected business cycle developments in OECD countries and has increased activities of firms across national borders. This paper analyzes whether these two developments are linked. We use a new firm-level dataset on the foreign activities of German firms to test whether foreign...
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Spatial Externalities and Growth in a Mankiw-Romer-Weil World : Theory and Evidence
Fischer, Manfred M. - 2017
by investors and these ideas may diffuse and increase the productivity of other firms. We link the diffusion of ideas to …
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Convergence or divergence patterns in income distribution across countries : a new evidence from a club clustering algorithm
Espoir, Delphin Kamanda - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
Since globalisation accelerated in the early 1990s, income inequality has increased in most developed countries and in some middle-income countries, including China and India. Also, inequality has declined in most countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and in many Sub-Saharan African and...
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US Foreign Affiliates, Technology Diffusion and Host Country Human Development : Human Development Index versus Human Capital
Elmawazini, Khaled - 2016
labor productivity only if host countries have a minimum level of human development. This condition may partially explain … why previous studies show mixed support for the hypothesis that foreign affiliates have a positive effect on productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999171
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Import and FDI as channels of international TFP spillovers
Pietrucha, Jacek; Żelazny, Rafał; Kozłowska, Magdalena; … - In: Equilibrium : quarterly journal of economics and … 13 (2018) 1, pp. 55-72
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