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Financial constraints and foreign direct investment : firm-level evidence
Buch, Claudia M.; Kesternich, Iris; Lipponer, Alexander; … - In: Review of world economics 150 (2014) 2, pp. 393-420
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357374
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The role of foreign direct investment, financial development, democracy and political (in)stability on economic growth in West Africa
Yusuf, Hammed Agboola; Shittu, Waliu Olawale; Akanbi, … - In: International trade, politics and development 4 (2020) 1, pp. 27-46
Purpose - In this research, we examine the role of financial development, FDI, democracy and political instability on economic growth in West Africa. Design/methodology/approach - The study uses the dynamic fixed effects technique on the secondary data obtained from 1996 to 2016. Findings - Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258157
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Development finance, blended finance and insurance
Jung, Hongjoo - In: International trade, politics and development 4 (2020) 1, pp. 47-60
Purpose - This research aims to review literature on development finance and its challenge and to examine blended learning and insurance as a catalysts of development finance. In particular, this paper provides new insights and practical examples of blended finance and insurance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258159
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Household waste separation intention and the importance of public policy
Chen, Bing; Lee, Jiwon - In: International trade, politics and development 4 (2020) 1, pp. 61-79
Purpose - The key challenge that urban cities in most developing and transitional economies is confronting is municipal solid waste (MSW) management. Waste separation is a critical component to successful recycling management in terms of enhancing the quality of recyclables, reducing MSW and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012258164
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Foreign direct investment and productivity spillovers : a firm-level analysis of Bangladesh in comparison with Vietnam
Arif-Ur-Rahman, Md; Inaba, Kazuo - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 10 (2021), pp. 1-23
country, and these spillovers are thought to have consequences on the productivity of domestic firms. Despite this strong … the effects of FDI spillover on firms' productivity in Bangladesh in comparison to Vietnam. We consider both the … productivity improvement through intra-industry or horizontal linkages, whereas Vietnamese firms gain through backward linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012629848
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Middle-income trap : threat or reality
Leven, Bozena - In: Contemporary economics 15 (2021) 3, pp. 321-331
exhausted, leaving Poland subject to MIT. To answer this question, we assess changes in investment and factor productivity …
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Reshoring in Italy : a recent analysis
Talamo, Giuseppina; Sabatino, Michele - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 381-398
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on reshoring by analysing this return strategy in Italy with a focus on economic resilience. The joint analysis of reshoring and economic resilience is a missing link which could shed some light on the evolution of regional and international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012177285
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Comparing sentiment- and behavioral-based leading indexes for industrial production : when does each fail?
Seip, Knut Lehre; Yilmaz, Yunus; Schröder, Michael - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 4/104, pp. 1-18
We apply a relatively novel leading–lagging (LL) method to four leading and one lagging indexes for industrial production (IP) in Germany. We obtain three sets of results. First, we show that the sentiment-based ifo index performs best in predicting the general changes in IP (−0.596, range...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012132320
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Access to college and heterogeneous returns to education in China
Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - In: Economics of education review 42 (2014), pp. 78-92
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010511597
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Labor market imperfections, markups and productivity in multinationals and exporters
Dobbelaere, Sabien; Kiyota, Kōzō - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 53 (2018), pp. 198-212
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130050