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The long-run effect of foreign direct investment on total factor productivity in developing countries: A panel cointegration analysis
Herzer, Dierk - 2015
capital, financial development, and trade openness, the coefficients are insignificant or significantly positive for subgroups … of countries with higher levels of human capital, financial development, and trade openness. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011301423
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Shareholders and wage determination
Ogorevc, Marko; Slander, Sonja - 2010
Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332661
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Contagious Policies: An Analysis of Spatial Interactions Among Countries' Capital Account Policies
Steiner, Andreas - 2010
Countries' capital account policies might be contagious in the sense that domestic policies are driven by other countries' policies. A model of strategic interactions is developed to show that countries' best response to policy changes elsewhere consists in imitating this policy. Using a spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301530
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The Long-Run Relationship between Outward FDI and Total Factor Productivity: Evidence for Developing Countries
Herzer, Dierk - 2011
productivity effects of outward FDI and the level of human capital, the level of financial development, or the degree of trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305599
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A panel cointegration study of the Euro effect on trade
Gengenbach, Christian - 2010
Bun and Klaassen (2007) investigate the impact of the introduction of Euro on bilateral trade. Accounting for …) bilateral trade, as well as the product of GDP and GDP per capita have unit roots. However, we find cointegration between these … the Euro effect on bilateral trade. Our estimates vary between models and estimators but seem to support the findings of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270238
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Cross-country heterogeneity and the trade-income relationship
Herzer, Dierk - 2009
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301490
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Multinationals, Foreign Market Entry, and Employment Security
Baumgarten, Daniel; Bachmann, Ronald; Stiebale, Joel - 2010
We analyze how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects employment security. Using administrative micro data for German employees allows us to follow individual workers over time. FDI intensity is measured at the sectoral level, which enables us to take into account direct as well as indirect...
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Distributional effects of FDI: How the interaction of FDI and economic policy affects poor households in Bolivia
Nunnenkamp, Peter; Schweickert, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - 2006
This paper provides a computable general equilibrium analysis of the medium to long-run impact of FDI inflows on poverty and income distribution in Bolivia. The simulation results suggest that FDI inflows enhance economic growth and reduce poverty. However, the income distribution typically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295145
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Globalisation, Gender, and Equity: Effects of Foreign Direct Investment on Labour Markets in Rural Indonesia
Siegmann, Karin Astrid - 2007
This study assesses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on gendered labour markets in rural Indonesia. It focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality. Th e research strategy of ?between-methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296041
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An FDI is an FDI is an FDI? The growth effects of greenfield investment and mergers and acquisitions in developing countries
Harms, Philipp; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2011
We explore the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in developing countries, distinguishing between mergers and acquisitions (M&As) and Greenfield investment. We find that these two types of FDI differ substantially with respect to their influence on growth. While...
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