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in the same region is associated with increasing productivity of local firms, especially in form of cross …
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argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance … conditioning the effects of spillovers from multinationals on their productivity. Overall, we find limited evidence or a negative … link between the presence of foreign-owned firms and the productivity of domestic firms in the same industry or the same …
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The determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) are explored with gravity models, using a Poisson estimator and a linear estimator, both with fixed effects. The heterogeneity of product market regulations has a large and robust impact on cross-border investment: a reduction of regulatory...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and trade are driving forces in agro-food global value chains (GVCs), allowing companies to spread their activities across countries in complex production chains. This study explores the landscape of FDI in the agriculture and food sectors, using a novel database...
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This paper assesses the redistribution of foreign direct investments (FDI) and tax revenues among countries due to multinationals’ response to international differences in corporate tax systems. The paper briefly reviews the literature on the tax sensitivity of FDI and uses a consensus...
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In a financially interconnected world, individual countries’ policy choices affect other economies and can become a source of international shocks. Leveraging on a new quarterly dataset of capital control adjustments, we find renewed evidence that the introduction of capital controls in one...
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Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity … country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout … the 2000s. Little research has been carried out as to the determinants behind the productivity slowdown in Ireland, and …
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paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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