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It is striking that by far the lion's share of empirical studies on the impact of outsourcing on firms considers industrialized countries. However, outsourcing by firms from emerging economies is far from negligible and growing. This paper investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation...
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We study the determinants of stock market development and the growing migration of capital raising, listing and trading activity to international exchanges. Economies with higher income per capita, sounder macro policies, more efficient legal systems with better shareholder protection, and more...
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The paper provides a simple theory and empirical evidence on the asymmetric effect of credit markets on output decline and output growth. When credit markets are underdeveloped and enterprise activity is financed outside the banking sector, exogenous shocks may induce a break-up of both credit...
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unhedged borrowers. This measure explicitly takes into account the indirect exchange rate risk that banks undertake when they … lend to borrowers that will not be able to repay in the event of a sharp depreciation. Such systemic risk taking is not …
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relative to the present is reduced. Hence, due to a rise in terror activity, investment goes down, and in the long run income …
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and investment, so it may take some time before an unemployed worker finds a job. Wages are determined by bargaining. A … subsidize entrepreneurial investment (there is a wage bargaining distortion and a search externality), simulations show that the …
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fertility, and lower investment in physical and human capital. Furthermore, the feedback effect from economic prosperity to …
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and investment. When the share of output that accrues to the owners of natural resources rises, the demand for capital … allocation of capital may, however, enhance the quantity as well as the quality of new investment and sustain growth. Empirical … thereby inhibiting economic growth. The results also suggest that abundant natural resources may hurt saving and investment …
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country risk. Increased political instability increases the equilibrium loan size in the first regime and decreases it in the …
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Using firm-level data, we provide evidence that, although monetary policy affects real investment, the effect operates …
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