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Modes of Delivery in Services
Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph - 2010
exports the further away are host countries. Language and the presence of manufacturing FDI are also important. The impact of …
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The Veblen-Gerschenkron Effect of FDI in Mezzogiorno and East Germany
Urban, Dieter M.; Peri, Giovanni - 2002
or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …
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CGE Modeling of Market Access in Services
Christen, Elisabeth M.; Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard - 2012
linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …
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Regional Determinants of FDI Distribution in Poland
Chidlow, Agnieszka; Young, Stephen - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2008
In this paper we examine the location determinants of the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI)into Poland, at a regional level. Using survey data from an online questionnaire in February 2005and a multinomial logit model incorporating the investor’s specific characteristics, we show...
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Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services
Fillat-Castejon, Carmen; Francois, Joseph Francis; … - 2008
Working with a panel dataset of of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model jointly to services trade and commercial...
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Is foreign direct investment good for growth? Evidence from sectoral analysis of China and Vietnam
Gangnes, Byron; Noy, Ilan - 2007
We estimate the impact of FDI on growth using sectoral data for FDI inflows to China and Vietnam. Previous empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285316
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Which Foreigners are Worth Wooing?A Meta-Analysis of Vertical Spillovers from FDI
Havránek, Tomáš; Irsova, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
The principal argument for subsidizing foreign investment, especially in developing andtransition economies, is the assumed spillover of technology to local firms. Yet researchersreport mixed results on spillovers. To examine the phenomenon in a systematic way, wecollected 3,626 estimates from...
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Does FDI spur innovation, productivity and knowledge sourcing byincumbent firms? Evidence from manufacturing industry in Estonia
Vahter, Priit - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
Does FDI affect productivity growth, innovation, and knowledge sourcing activities ofdomestic firms? This study employs … local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivitygrowth in the short term. The effect on productivity does not depend on the … local firms’distance to the productivity frontier. However, there are positive spillovers on processinnovation. The results …
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Direct and Indirect Effects of FDI inEmerging European Markets:A Survey and Meta-analysis
Hanousek, Jan; Kočenda, Evžen; Maurel, Mathilde - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2010
We review a large body of literature dealing with the effects of Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) on economies during their transformation from a command economic systemtoward a market system. We report the results of a meta-analysis based on the literatureon externalities from FDI. The studies on...
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Is more mobility good? Firm mobility and the low wage-low productivity trap
Seguino, Stephanie - 2005
productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical … evidence, based on panel data fixed effects and GMM estimation for 37 semi-industrialized economies, that supports the causal …
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