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In this paper we examine how firms change their resources in response to exogenous shocks in their business environment. Building on core ideas from the literatures on organizational imprinting and firm resources, we suggest that founding conditions differentially imprint firm resources. These...
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This paper considers the generalized second-best analytics of optimal restructuring under a political constraint, building on the modeling approach in Dehejia (1997). It is shown that the second-best optimum entails administering the terms of trade shock fully at the initiation of the reform,...
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Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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In this paper we present an overview of a number of issues relating to the equilibrium exchange rates of transition economies of the former soviet bloc. In particular, we present a critical overview of the various methods available for calculating equilibrium exchange rates and discuss how...
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of 3 equations where economic growth, economic reform and FDI are jointly determined. We find that new reforms affect … economic growth negatively but attract FDI, whereas the level of past reform leads to higher growth. This means that the … immediate adjustment cost of new reforms is counterbalanced by an immediate increase in FDI inflows and higher growth in the …
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observed level of foreign direct investment (FDI) flows is kept in the medium run almost all countries could optimally have a … Romania. Accordingly, the maintenance of relatively large FDI inflows (especially greenfield investments) to national …
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existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms in the host country … hypothesis that spillovers are greater for FDI with more advanced technology. While efficiency of domestic firms’is affected by … the business environment, the strength of FDI spillovers is not, either when measured by the degree of corruption …
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. However, the coefficient values of FDI are smaller, suggesting that the positive effects are marginal. (b) When FDI inflows … collaborations increase productivity in part through its effect on the FDI inflows. (c) Another interesting finding is that there is … no strong evidence to show that this positive effect is state-heterogeneous. In turn, we find partial effects of FDI are …
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This paper evaluates evidence of the impact of outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment rates …. OECD countries with high rates of outbound FDI in the 1980s and 1990s exhibited lower domestic investment than other … countries, which suggests that FDI and domestic investment are substitutes. U.S. time series data tell a very different story …
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The stylized facts that motivate this thesis include the diversity in growth patterns that are observed across countries during the process of economic development, and the divergence over time in income distributions both within and across countries. This thesis constructs a dynamic general...
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