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expats are positively related to exports by assisting firms in overcoming informal trade barriers. Overall, our findings …
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if the 'superstar' products induce more trade of non-superstar products. I find evidence that the exports of low …
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This study formalizes the idea that that the world can become 'smaller' through firms' strategic trade … links through the hiring of immigrants. Because trade barriers are higher for services than for goods, and because trade in … services is more sensitive to informal trade barriers, firm investment in access to foreign networks could especially help to …
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India's growing economic strength of recent years has seen it adapting its foreign policy to increase its global influence and status and to meet the challenges of the 21st century. In the past few years, New Delhi has expanded its strategic vision, most noticeably in Asia, and has broadened the...
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This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....
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Using Swedish firm-level data on all firms and their affiliates abroad, we investigate what observable firm and country characteristics affect the size of affiliate firms in a particular destination. We employ the richness of the data to investigate the importance of destination country factors...
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investigate the impact of globalization. Our results indicate that although falling trade costs results in greater wage inequality …
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This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census and the Dun & Bradstreet exit database for Switzerland (1995-2000). Employing duration analysis, we find considerable differences in the determinants of mergers and...
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
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We prove a no-speculative-trade theorem under unawareness for the infinite case. This generalizes the result for the …
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