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Product Sophistication and Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Eck, Katharina; Huber, Stephan - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2014

sophistication and spillovers from FDI. We then explore different channels through which spillovers from multinationals to local … knowledge and technology spillovers to local firms. One way how FDI speeds up growth is that it facilitates the manufacturing of … firms affects the product sophistication of firms in a developing country. This paper aims to fill this gap. We compile an …

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WAYS OF IMPROVING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT (FDI) CONTRIBUTION TO ROMANIA‘S SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Zaman, Gheorghe - In: Annales Universitatis Apulensis Series Oeconomica 2 (2012) 14, pp. 30-30

The paper analysis the macro and micro ways of improving FDI contribution toRomania‘s sustainable development. Part.1 is devoted to FDI macroeconomic factors of influenceregarding: theoretical and practical aspects of sectoral structure and technological level of FDI;regional and country of...

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Linkages and technology spillovers in the presence of foreign firms: Evidence from the Indian pharmaceutical industry

Pattnayak, Sanja Samirana; Thangavelu, Shandre M. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 38 (2011) July, pp. 275-286

Purpose – This paper aims to examine production linkage and technology spillovers due to the presence of foreign firms …

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On Multinational Firms, Diffusion of Skills and Development

Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2006

I study the implications for the development of a country hosting of multinational firms. The paper argues that despite the negative impact on existing local firms, the presence of foreign firms induce the emergence of a new sector of domestic firms and that in the long term, the country to...

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Agglomeration and the Location of Innovative Activity

Audretsch, David B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

essential to innovative activity. Such knowledge spillovers tend to be spatially restricted. Thus, an irony of globalization is …

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Innovation in Cities: Science-Based Diversity, Specialization and Localized Competition

Audretsch, David B; Feldman, Maryann P - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

a narrow concentrated set of economic activities is more conducive to knowledge spillovers or if diversity, by bringing …

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Endogenous Growth when Unskilled Labour is Abundant

Robertson, P. E. - School of Economics, UNSW Business School - 1997

An extension of the Uzawa-Lucas endogenous growth model is discussed which incorporates diminishing returns to human capital and unskilled labour in aggregate labour inputs. This extension is important in the context of developing economies, due to their abundance of unskilled labour, relative...

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Trust, Social Capital and Economic Development

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

Many argue that elements of a society s norms, culture or social capital are central to understanding its development.However, these notions have been difficult to capture in economic models.Here we argue that trustworthiness is the economically relevant component of a society s culture and...

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Culture and Development : An Analytical Framework

Francois, P.; Zabojnik, J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

This paper develops a framework which analyzes how a population's culture affects the decisions of rational profit maximizing firms, while simultaneously exploring how the actions of these firms in turn affect the population's culture.By endogenizing culture as well as the more usual economic...

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Industry policy, technological change, and the state

Srinivas, Smita - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Industrial policy and innovation policies need to be strongly revitalized and focused on LDC development. Given the concentration of several LDCs in forestry, fisheries, mining, agricultural commodities, and oil, the task of these revitalized industrial policies is to support locally relevant...

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