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Offshoring under uncertainty
Kohler, Wilhelm; Kukharskyy, Bohdan - In: European economic review : EER 118 (2019), pp. 158-180
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Environmental risk and growth in foreign direct investment : is the composition of FDI in sub-Saharan Africa a speculative type?
Ohemeng, Williams; Ofori-Boateng, Kenneth; Agyapong, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-25
The study explores the influence of environmental risk (macroeconomic uncertainty and environmental sustainability risk … outcomes show that higher level of uncertainty in GDP growth, inflation uncertainty and financial development volatility induce … more FDI inflows whilst uncertainty in exchange rate adversely impacts FDI inflows in SSA. The paper highlights how …
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Effect of international activity on firm performance : trade liberalization benefits better performing firms and contributes to economic growth
Wagner, Joachim - 2014
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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How offshoring can affect the industries' skill composition
Horgos, Daniel; Tajoli, Lucia - In: Economies : open access journal 3 (2015) 2, pp. 72-99
While most of the offshoring literature focuses on the effects on relative wages, other implications do not receive the … industry where offshoring takes place. If offshoring takes place in high-skill intensive industries, the high-skill labor ratio … increases (vice versa if offshoring takes place in low-skill intensive industries). Results are in line with other empirical …
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Application of oli-paradigm of German FDI inflows in Turkey
Ilgün, Erkan; Tatić, Kasim - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 10 (2012) 2, pp. 29-40
Foreign direct investment (FDI) plays a pivotal role in economic development. Most important advantages of this are new technology, management ability, marketing ability and modern know-how. However, the literature dealing specifically with the issue of German direct investments in Turkey is...
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Global sourcing, firm size and export survival
Bandick, Roger - 2019
This paper investigates how firm size and global sourcing affect the export surviving probabilities. By using data on export and import transactions disaggregated by destination/origin for the entire Danish manufacturing firms between the periods 1995-2006, the author is able to classify the...
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Globalization and shadow economy : a panel analysis for Africa
Ajide, Folorunsho M.; Dada, James Temitope - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 9 (2024) 2, pp. 166-189
Purpose This article examines the effect of China's soft power projection through the Chinese media in Africa on the African audiences' perception of China's national image through a case study of the residents of Nairobi. It adopted Joseph Nye's soft power model and sought to address three...
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Estimating the effect of AfCFTA on intra-African trade using augmented GE-PPML
Fofack, Hippolyte; Dzene, Richman; Mohsen Hussein, Omar A. - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 8 (2021) 2, pp. 62-76
This paper draws on a general equilibrium poisson pseudo maximum likelihood model augmented by a dynamic capital accumulation to estimate the effects of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) on intra-African trade flows. The empirical results show that the AfCFTA could raise...
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The effect of trade liberalization on inter-industry wage difference in Indonesia's manufacturing sector
Watekhi, Watekhi; Nachrowi, Nachrowi D. - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-12
This study analyzes the effect of trade liberalization on wage inequality through industry wage premiums in Indonesia's manufacturing sector between 2000 and 2015, a period marked by low import tariffs. The study was undertaken by adopting a two-stage estimation approach. Using the national...
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Handelsschocks, Arbeitsmärkte und Wohlstand während der ersten Globalisierung
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 28 (2022) 1, pp. 10-13
Dieser Beitrag untersucht Deutschland in der ersten Globalisierung in den Jahrzehnten vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Damals erlebte das Deutsche Reich eine massive Zunahme von Getreideimporten aus Amerika. Wir vergleichen Landkreise, die auf die importierten Getreidesorten spezialisiert waren, mit...
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