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Assessing the Impact of Ease of Doing Business and Corruption on Economic Growth for Africa Free Trade Zone (AFTZ) Member States

Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2018

A positive economic growth is one crucial macroeconomic objective of every nation. Many countries have formed regional as well as international trading blocs in an attempt to enhance economic growth and maximise welfare of each member state, the AFTZ member states are not an exception. This...

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Does innovation matter for Chinese hightech exports? a firm-level analysis

Fu, Dahai; Wu, Yanrui; Tang, Yihong - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

exporting. The impacts of innovation on exporting vary widely across industries and provinces. …

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Market Access Strategies in the EU Banking Sector - Obstacles and Benefits Towards an Integrated European Retail Market

Beckmann, Rainer - 2010

The integration process in the European banking sector considerably differs with regard to product types. Deep integration can be observed in the money market as well as the market for wholesale products. In contrast to that, a strong segmentation of national markets still exists in the field of...

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Implications of Ownership Identity and Insider's Supermacy on the Economic Performance of the Liste Companies

Yasser, Qaiser Rafique; Mamun, Abdullah Al - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We adopt a multi-theoretic approach to investigate a previously unexplored phenomenon in extant literature, namely the differential impact of ownership identity and director dominate shareholding on the performance of emerging market firms. The main research question addressed is, whether the...

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Horizontal and Vertical Firm Networks, Corporate Performance and Product Market Competition

Bischoff, Oliver - 2015

This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...

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The Nature of Innovation Channels at the Micro-Level : Evidence from Russian Manufacturing Firms

Simačev, Jurij V.; Kuzyk, Michail; Feygina, Vera - 2013

The main purpose of the paper is to analyze different channels for innovations. We consider the influence of various incentives for innovation in Russian companies taking into account the organization of industries — vertical or horizontal orientation, peculiarities of corporate demography,...

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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South

Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997

Preface Over the last decade and a half the global economic order has been undergoing major changes. While this may be thought to reflect the results of a multilateral and participatory process involving debate and negotiations, in reality it has been mostly driven by the economic interests of...

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The Economic Consequences of China-Africa Relations: Debunking Myths in the Debate

Asongu, Simplice A; Aminkeng, Gilbert A. A - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This study dissects with great acuteness some of the big questions on China-Africa relations in order to debunk … direction of China-Africa relations. In the mean, the relationship from an economic standpoint is promising and encouraging but … management. A number of positive signs suggest that China is heading toward the direction which would provide openings for a …

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鼓励还是抑制？初探外商直接投资与新民营企业进入

Wang, Daili - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As one of the numerous merits brought by global financial integration, foreign direct investment (FDI) plays an indispensable role in fostering economic growth in the developing world. Different from previous literatures which concentrate on discussing the FDI productivity spillover effect, the...

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The location substitution effect: does it apply for China?

Banik, Nilanjan; Das, Khanindra Ch. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

the location substitution effect for China: Chinese firms are exporting primary, intermediate and machinery items, meant …The notion about China being factory of the world is changing. Factories in China are shifting their production base to … neighboring Asia, primarily because of higher input costs in China, a volatile Chinese exchange rate, Chinese exports being …

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