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Kilpailukyky ja globaalin toimintaympäristön muutos: Suomen koneteollisuus maailmantaloudessa

Suni, Paavo; Ylä-Anttila, Pekka - 2011

The report analyses the impacts of globalization on competitiveness of national economies, industries and firms. The focus is in mechanical and electrical engineering and machinery. Global division of labor has significantly changed over the past few decades when the large emerging economies -...

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China's exports and the oil price

Faria, João Ricardo; Mollick, André Varella; … - 2008

export competitiveness, together with the oil price, productivity, real exchange rate, and foreign industrial production over …

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Productivity spillovers from FDI: Ownership structures, domestic firm characteristics, and FDI characteristics

Damgaard, Jannick - 2011

This paper is unique in testing the importance of the foreign ownership definition when estimating productivity … companies. In addition, it moves beyond the standard framework by not only analyzing aggregate productivity spillovers, but also … results. With regard to domestic firm characteristics, high export orientation and high competition mitigate some of the …

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Privatization and human resource issues in the Caribbean sugar industry.

Thomas, C. Y - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1995

Examines privatization of the sugar plantations and sugar processing industry in the Caribbean region. Provides a detailed account of the current state of the Caribbean sugar industry. Examines the modalities and activities of the privatization process in the six countries. Identifies the forces...

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Designing a performance measurement system to support outsourcing decisions in a Finnish university

Jääskeläinen, Aki; Lönnqvist, Antti; Kulmala, Harri I. - In: International journal of public sector performance … 2 (2012/2015) 3, pp. 237-252

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Financial constraints and the margins of FDI

Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - 2009

Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross …

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FDI spillovers in the Chinese manufacturing sector : evidence of firm heterogeneity

Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Slootmaekers, Veerle - In: The economics of transition 18 (2010) 1, pp. 143-182

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Tariff rates, offshoring and productivity : evidence from German and Austrian firm-level data

Hansen, Thorsten - 2010

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …

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Financial constraints and innovation : why poor countries don't catch up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - 2010

We examine micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data...

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Productivity and international firm activities : what do we know?

Wagner, Joachim - 2011

mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

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