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Growth, private investment and reforms : A comparative perspective

KAMEL, Ghazouani - EconWPA - 2005

In this paper we empirically analyse the linkages among growth, investment and reforms in the South East Asian …

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Internal finance and corporate investment: Belgian evidence with panel data

Barran, Fernando; Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1998

In this paper the corporate investment decision under financial restrictions is investigated with Belgian firm data … from 1984 to 1992. An investment Euler equation is derived from a dynamic optimization model with debt ceilings and an … source of corporate investment in Belgium since 1986. The estimation results show the dependence of corporate investment on …

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Do Foreign Investors Care about Labor Market Regulations?

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; Spatareanu, Mariana - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2005

This study investigates whether labor market flexibility affects foreign direct investment (FDI) flows across 19 …

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Chinese and Indian Multinationals: A Firm-Level Analysis of their Investments in Europe

Amendolagine, Vito; Cozza, Claudio; Rabellotti, Roberta - Centre for Innovation, Research and Competence in the … - 2014

In this paper we aim to contribute to the literature on Chinese and Indian multinationals investing in Europe, through an empirical investigation of their identity and characteristics and the association between these features and their international business strategies. The investigation...

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Productivity linkages between services and manufacturing: Firm-level evidence from developing countries

Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper uses firm-level data from 119 developing countries to show that services sector productivity is positively associated with manufacturing productivity. Moreover, the link between productivity in services and manufacturing is particularly strong for manufacturing firms that are more...

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Services firms in the developing world: An empirical snapshot

Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

manufacturers, but are less likely to export or to receive inward foreign direct investment. Among service providers …

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A Review and Reflection on the Use and Abuse of Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database

Nie, Huihua; Jiang, Ting; Yang, Rudai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Empirical research has called for intensive use of disaggregated data. One of the most heavily used data set in studying the corporate behavior and performance in China is Chinese Industrial Enterprises Database. As we will show, this data set suffers from data matching problems as well as...

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Global Sourcing of Heterogeneous Firms: Theory and Evidence

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - CESifo - 2015

This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate input supplier (vertical integration vs. outsourcing), as...

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Are Investment Promotion Agencies Doing the Thing Right? Evidence from China

Ni, Bin - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2013

This paper tries to verify how the establishment of investment promotion agencies (IPAs) affects the decisions of … foreign firms regarding their subsequent investment by combining firm-level data from the World Bankfs Enterprise Survey with … IPAsf role in promoting incremental foreign direct investment (FDI) into China. Furthermore, it is shown that Hong Kong …

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What Determines Inward FDI in China? --An empirical study using firm-level data

Ni, Bin - Osaka School of International Public Policy (OSIPP), … - 2013

affect inward foreign direct investment ("FDI") in China. After excluding the problems of sample selection and endogeneity …, the result shows that investment promotion agencies (IPAs) and investment incentive zones (IIZs) have significant positive …

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