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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova, Klara Z.; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476861

Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Peter, Klara Sabirianova; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic andRussia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies, often...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476944

Direct Foreign Investments And Productivity Growth In Hungarian Firms, 1992-1999

Sgard, Jérôme - 2001

The impact of FDI on total factor productivity in Hungary during the 1990s' is assessed with a large enterprise panel …. Foreign equity is associated with higher productivity levels and has a substantial, positive spillover effect on aggregate TFP …. Finally, State ownership implies lower levels of productivity, but does not hinder the capacity to respond to market …

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Growth and productivity in Australia

Agbenyegah, Benjamin K.; Bloch, Harry - 2008

This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434976

Impact of Imported Intermediate and Capital Goods on Economic Growth: A Cross Country Analysis

Veeramani, C. - 2009

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country’s imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …

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The Allocation and Monitoring Role of Capital Markets: Theory and International Evidence

Tadesse, Solomon - 2003

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476803

The Allocation and Monitoring Role of Capital Markets: Theory and International Evidence

Tadesse, Solomon - 2003

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476906

Bridging the barriers: knowledge connections, productivity, and capital accumulation

Grafton, R. Quentin; Kompas, Tom; Owen, P. Dorian - 2004

The paper explains the large differences in cross-country productivity performance by modeling and testing the effects … of social barriers to communication on productivity and capital accumulation. In an optimal growth model, social barriers …-state levels of total factor productivity (TFP), per capita consumption, and reproducible capital. A ‘bridging’ parameter in the …

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Foreign Direct Investment as Technology Transferred: Some Panel Evidence from the Transition Economies

Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2002

Although the theoretical literature has identified various sizeable benefits from foreign direct investment inflows (FDI), the empirical literature has been unable to establish a positive and significant impact of FDI on the rates of economic growth of host countries. One reason for this...

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