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Poor People's Knowledge : Helping Poor People to Earn from Their Knowledge

Finger, J. Michael - 2013

How can we help poor people to earn more from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and muscle? This paper draws … lessons from projects intended to promote and protect the innovation, knowledge, and creative skills of poor people in poor … countries, particularly to improve the earnings of poor people from such knowledge and skills. The international community has …

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Migration, Spillovers, and Trade Diversion : The Impact of Internationalization on Stock Market Liquidity

Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2003

What is the impact of firms that cross-list, issue depositary receipts, or raise capital in international stock markets on the liquidity of remaining firms in domestic markets? Using a panel of over 3,200 firms from 55 countries during 1989-2000, Levine and Schmukler find that...

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The Capabilities Driving Participation in Global Value Chains

Farole, Thomas; Pathikonda, Vilas - 2016

Global value chains have altered the nature of global trade and offer significant opportunities for developing countries to expand exports, access technology, and raise productivity. Policy makers rightly seek to understand what it takes to participate in global value chains. In practice, this...

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A Model on Knowledge and Endogenous Growth

Chen, Derek Hung Chiat; Kee, Hiau Looi - 2012

The authors present a model of endogenous growth in which the main engine of economic development is knowledge. Using a … sector, their model incorporates two key aspects of knowledge: technology and human capital. Steady-state equilibrium …

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Knowledge and Development : A Cross-Section Approach

Chen, Derek Hung Chiat; Dahlman, Carl J. - 2013

This paper assesses the effects of knowledge on economic growth. By using an array of indicators, each of which … represents an aspect of knowledge, as independent variables in cross-section regressions that span 92 countries for the period … 1960 to 2000, they show that knowledge is a significant determinant of long-term economic growth. In particular, the …

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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation

Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

By documenting the evolution of Tobin's q before, during, and after firms internationalize, the authors provide evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, they find that...

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Contagion and Firms??? Internationalization in Latin America : Evidence from Mexico, Brazil, and Chile

Sakho, Yaye Seynabou - 2012

The author investigates whether contagion matters when emerging market firms cross-list their stocks in a developed capital market. She develops a rational expectations model where financial markets are segmented along emerging markets' borders and contagion spreads from one emerging market to...

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How Do Multinationals Report Their Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts? : Evidence from Global Reporting Initiative Data

Winkler, Deborah - 2017

This paper examines the role of multinational enterprises in sustainability reporting. The study assesses how multinational enterprise status correlates with a company's average disclosure rate and probability of reporting on economic, labor and social, environmental, and governance indicators....

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What to Do When Foreign Direct Investment Is Not Direct or Foreign : FDI Round Tripping

Aykut, Dilek; Kosmidou, Gina; Sanghi, Apurva - 2017

As globalization has intensified, multinational enterprises' investments have become a sophisticated set of financial …

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Inventor Diasporas and the Internationalization of Technology

Miguélez, Ernest - 2016

This paper documents the influence of diaspora networks of highly-skilled individuals -- that is, inventors -- on international technological collaborations. Using gravity models, it studies the determinants of the internationalization of inventive activity between a group of industrialized...

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