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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As part of this, existing restrictions on foreign ownership structure and mandatory export and technology transfer requirements imposed on foreign firms have been lifted in a number...
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Fiscal decentralization, endogenous policies, and foreign direct investment : theory and evidence from China and India
Wang, Yong - In: Journal of development economics 103 (2013), pp. 107-123
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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
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Labor unions and the electoral consequences of trade liberalization
Ogeda, Pedro Molina; Ornelas, Emanuel; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2021
We show that the Brazilian trade liberalization in the early 1990s led to a permanent relative decline in the vote share of left-wing presidential candidates in the regions more affected by the tariff cuts. This happened even though the shock, implemented by a right-wing party, induced a...
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Factor shares, redistribution and growth in a captured democracy
Vindigni, Andrea - 2024
political power at the expenses of the median voter. In particular, investments in lobbying activities allow the rich to obtain … variable taxes and lobbying. In addition, it is established the existence of a transitional dynamics featuring convergence to a … balanced growth path, characterized by constant taxes and lobbying (and a constant growth rate of consumption and capital …
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Economic growth with political lobbying and wage bargaining
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2009
This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the economy or the more they can coordinate their...
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Natural disasters, intra-national FDI spillovers, and economic divergence : evidence from India
Friedt, Felix L.; Toner-Rodgers, Aidan - In: Journal of development economics 157 (2022), pp. 1-21
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Trade reforms, credibility, and development
Aizenman, Joshua - In: Journal of development economics 39 (1992) 1, pp. 163-187
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Does foreign direct investment promote growth? : exploring the role of financial markets on linkages
Alfaro, Laura; Chanda, Areendam; Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem; … - In: Journal of development economics 91 (2010) 2, pp. 242-256
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International capital market integration, educational choice and economic growth
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Falkinger, Josef; … - 2005
This paper examines the impact of capital market integration (CMI) on higher education and economic growth. We take into account that participation in higher education is non-compulsory and depends on individual choice. Integration increases (decreases) the incentives to participate in higher...
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