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How the Dragon Captured the World Export Markets : Outsourcing and Foreign Investment Lead the Way
Adams, F. Gerard; Gangnes, Byron; Shachmurove, Yochanan - 2004
This paper explores several theories regarding how China has become highly successful in capturing world export markets. The paper concludes that increased competitiveness is dependant on, but not limited to several factors discussed in detail including, exchange rate undervaluation, low wage...
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Concentration of resources and economic growth
Castells-Quintana, David - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 2 (2015) 1, pp. 17-25
In this letter I summarise the main results and contributions from my Ph.D. thesis on concentration of resources and economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in modern economic development, namely increasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011304117
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Carbon emissions, income inequality and environmental degradation : the case of Mediterranean countries
Belaïd, Fateh; Boubaker, Sabri; Kafrouni, Rajwane - In: European journal of comparative economics 17 (2020) 1, pp. 73-102
This study examines the main driving forces affecting short- and long-term CO2 emissions pattern due to changes in growth and income inequality for 11 Mediterranean economies over the period 1990-2012. It proposes an autoregressive dynamic distributive lag dynamic panel specification to (i) test...
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Policy Research on Migration and Development
Ellerman, David - 2004
This is a survey and analysis - with commentary - of migration issues and the related development policies for the sending countries. "Migration and development" is considered an unsettled and unresolved area for good reason. The policy issues are surprisingly deep and run to basic issues such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014071568
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2014
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070459
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Globalization and equality : a cross-country analysis
Urata, Shūjirō; Baek, Youngmin - 2024
and unskilled workers. Based on our findings, we argue that developing countries should improve their FDI environment to … attract FDI and upgrade the quality of unskilled labor by providing education and training, in order to reduce the wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014574326
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Institutions and FDI : evidence from developed and developing countries
Sabir, Samina; Rafique, Anum; Abbas, Kamran - In: Financial innovation : FIN 5 (2019) 8, pp. 1-20
percentage of GDP, and infrastructure have positive and statistically significant impacts on FDI inflows in developing countries …. Trade openness as a percentage of GDP and infrastructure positively affect FDI in developed countries. From our analysis, we …This study investigates the impact of institutional quality on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows using panel data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011972651
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Into the allocation puzzle : a sectoral analysis
Reinhardt, Dennis - 2010
productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity … prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows and, using a new data set, at FDI flows into the main economic sectors. We make … three points. First, we do not find evidence of an allocation puzzle for aggregate FDI flows. Second, we refine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008758917
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Into the allocation puzzle : a sectoral analysis
Reinhardt, Dennis - 2010
productivity growth - is observed for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, which should be particularly sensitive to productivity … prospects. We look both at aggregate FDI flows and, using a new data set, at FDI flows into the main economic sectors. We make … three points. First, we do not find evidence of an allocation puzzle for aggregate FDI flows. Second, we refine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008759323
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Migration and cross-border financial flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
The gravity model has provided a tractable empirical framework to account for bilateral flows not only of manufactured goods, as in the case of merchandise trade, but also of financial flows. In particular, recent literature has emphasized the role of information costs in preventing larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781901