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The Role of Foreign Firm Characteristics, Absorptive Capacity and the Institutional Framework for FDI Spillovers
Farole, Thomas; Winkler, Deborah - In: Journal of Banking and Financial Economics 1 (2015) 3, pp. 77-112
from the World Bank’s Enterprise Surveys Indicator Database we assess how mediating factors influence productivity … three affect the extent and direction of FDI spillovers on domestic firm productivity. Moreover, we find that the impact of … mediating factors depends on domestic firms’ productivity and the structure of foreign ownership. …
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Respect, responsibility, and production
Breuer, Janice Boucher; McDermott, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We examine the impact of the values respect for others and responsibility on productivity and the accumulation of … is substantial. Respect for others works primarily through productivity whereas responsibility is important to investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541503
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - 2007
This lecture revisits the evidence on the incidence and severity of different varieties of financial crises within the context of globalization then (pre-1914) and now (1980 to the present). I then discuss the determinants of emerging market crises from the perspective of the recent balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295241
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Growing up to Financial Stability
Bordo, Michael D. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-12, pp. 1-17
This lecture revisits the evidence on the incidence and severity of different varieties of financial crises within the context of globalization then (pre-1914) and now (1980 to the present). I then discuss the determinants of emerging market crises from the perspective of the recent balance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295310
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The primacy of institutions reconsidered: The effects of malaria prevalence in the empirics of development
Carstensen, Kai; Gundlach, Erich - 2005
Some recent empirical studies deny any direct performance effects of measures of geography and conclude that institutions trump all other potential determinants of development. For given effects of institutional quality, our empirical results indicate quantitatively important direct negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416456
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Innovation at the World Bank: Selective perspectives over three decades 1975 - 2005
Grawe, Roger - 2013
The World Bank is uniquely positioned to identify and disseminate innovative development practices. Based on his thirty-year experience as a World Bank staff member, the author takes an institutional perspective on the innovation climate at the World Bank focusing on dominant development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333703
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
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Capacity development for the transformation of Africa
Léautier, Frannie A. - 2014
Countries need capacity for a variety of reasons, including sustaining economic growth, generating jobs, reducing poverty, effectively managing development programmes, and transforming societies and economies. A lot of effort has been expended to develop capacity in Africa with mixed results....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343254
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Origins and Implications of Family Structure across Italian Provinces in Historical Perspective
Bertocchi, Graziella; Bozzano, Monica - 2016
In this study we review the literature on the origins and implications of family structure in historical perspective with a focus on Italian provinces. Furthermore we present newly-collected data on three of the main features of family structure: female mean age at marriage, the female celibacy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584642