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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS
Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; Galeotti, Marzio; … - EconWPA - 2001
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481
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Productivity Gaps, Inward Investments and Productivity of European firms
Castellani, Davide; Zanfei, Antonello - EconWPA - 2001
Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on existing literature by using firm-level data comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556487
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INVESTING IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR OF EMERGING COUNTRIES: POTENTIAL RISK AND HOW TO MANAGE THEM
HERRERO, ALICIA GARCIA; HERRERO, SONSOLES GALLEGO; … - EconWPA - 2004
The purpose of this article is to assess how the changing operations of international banks in emerging countries in the last decades have altered the risks they face as well as their mitigation techniques. The recent expansion of the international banking business through the setup of branches...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556585
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Trade in Intermediate Producer Services under Imperfect Competition
Islyami, Aidan - FIW - 2009
In this paper a stylized CGE model is constructed to study the impact of liberalization of barriers for foreign providers of intermediate producer services under imperfect competition on the welfare, the downstream industry output, the prices of the factors of production and the pattern of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558194
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Outsourcing and Firm Productivity in Irish Manufacturing
McCann, Fergal - FIW - 2009
The causality from outsourcing, defined as the procurement of inputs from outside the boundaries of the firm, to productivity is tested for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Theory suggests that as firms outsource more 'non-core' activities to specialized providers, productivity due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558197
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Banking Globalization: International Consolidation and Mergers in Banking
Buch, Claudia M.; DeLong, Gayle L. - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2008
This paper surveys recent literature on international mergers and acquisitions in banking. We focus on three main questions. First, what are the determinants of cross-border mergers of commercial banks? Second, do cross-border mergers affect the efficiency of banks? Third, what are the risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558228
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Who Goes East? The Impact of Enlargement on the Patterns of German FDI
Buch, Claudia M.; Kleinert, Jörn - Institut für Angewandte Wirtschaftsforschung (IAW) - 2006
, multinational activity in Eastern Europe is mostly unilaterally whereas, for industrialized countries, bilateral FDI linkages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558249
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Location and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry
Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2007
This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm’s innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558360
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Location and R&D alliances in the European ICT industry
Narula, Rajneesh; Santangelo, Grazia D. - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2007
This paper shows empirically that in an intra-industry oligopolistic scenario the location of a firm’s innovative activities plays an important role in determining its partner selection in R&D alliances. Such a role is mainly attributed to a strategic use of R&D alliances as a means to limit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005558370
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The Role of FDI in Economic Development
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Kind, Hans Jarle; Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik - In: Nordic Journal of Political Economy 28 (2002), pp. 109-126
This paper deals with two questions: First, what are the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI)? Second, what … is the role of FDI in economic development? In order to provide some answers to these questions, we draw upon the … geographical proximity to large and growing economies. On the host country effects of FDI, we conclude that while FDI is not …
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