Search Results - subject:"CAPITAL GOODS IMPORTS"

Do capital goods imports improve the quality of regional development? : evidence from Chinese cities

Liao, Hongwei; Wang, Dingqing; Van Assche, Ari; Du, Julan - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 8 (2023) 4, pp. 1-12

technological innovation effect of capital goods imports on regional development quality. This study explores the path of high … squares regression and mediating and moderating effects models, to investigate the impact of capital goods imports on regional … development quality and the mechanism of action. The findings demonstrate that capital goods imports have an inverted U …

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Imports of key capital goods and quality upgrading : evidence from China's import subsidy policy

Li, Jie; Lu, Angdi; Wu, Shuang - In: China economic review : an international journal 80 (2023), pp. 1-29

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Does Input-Trade Liberalization Affect Firms' Foreign Technology Choice

Bas, Maria; Berthou, Antoine - In: The World Bank Economic Review 31 (2017) 2, pp. 351-384

This paper studies the impact of input-trade liberalization on firms' decision to upgrade foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. Our empirical analysis is motivated by a simple theoretical framework of endogenous technology adoption, heterogeneous firms and imported inputs. The...

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What Determines Technology Diffusion Across Frontiers? R&D Content, Human Capital and Institutions

Assiotis, Andreas; Zachariades, Marios; Savvides, Andreas - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 856-870

goods imports, more than mere capital accumulation. … results highlight the role of institutions and human capital in facilitating embodied technology diffusion through capital …

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Credit market institutions and firm imports of capital goods : evidence from developing countries

Fauceglia, Dario - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 43 (2015) 4, pp. 902-918

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Imported Equipment, Human Capital and Economic Growth in Developing Countries

Dulleck, Uwe; Foster, Neil - National Centre for Econometric Research (NCER) - 2007

De Long and Summers (1991) began a literature examining the impact of equipment investment on growth. In this paper we examine such a relationship for developing countries by considering imports of equipment from advanced countries as our measure of equipment investment for a sample of 55...

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