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Assessing the Impact of Cluster Policies: the case of the Arranjos Productivos Locais in Brazil
Maffioli, Alessandro; Garone, Lucas Figal; Rodriguez, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
the indirect – i.e. spillovers – causal effect of participating in APLs on a series of SMEs’ performance indicators … and learning among themselves and with other stakeholders. Using firm-level data comprising information on SMEs from … Brazil for the years 2002 to 2009 we apply fixed effects, matching and reweighting methods to estimate both the direct and …
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The Impact of Public Credit Programs on Brazilian Firms
Maffioli, Alessandro; Negri, João Alberto De; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public credit lines in promoting the performances of Brazilian firms. We focus on the impact of the credit lines managed by BNDES and FINEP in fostering growth measured in terms of employment, labor productivity and export. For this purpose, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416001
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The Impact of Public Credit Programs on Brazilian Firms
Maffioli, Alessandro; Negri, João Alberto De; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of public credit lines in promoting the performances of Brazilian firms. We focus on the impact of the credit lines managed by BNDES and FINEP in fostering growth measured in terms of employment, labor productivity and export. For this purpose, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943804
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КОНЦЕССИИ И КЛАСТЕРЫ: АСПЕКТЫ ВЗАИМОДЕЙСТВИЯ
ГЕРМАНОВНА, СТЕПАНОВА НАДЕЖДА - In: Экономический журнал (2012) 3, pp. 50-61
В статье рассмотрены как формирование концессионного взаимодействия власти и бизнеса, так и основные тенденции применения ориентированной на кластеры...
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The Cluster Approach for Facilitating Romanian Firms’ Access to the European Single Market
Anca-Maria, Stãnculescu; Mihaela, Gagea Andreea; … - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 1998-2003
The article analyses the possibilities for facilitating Romanian firms’ access to the European Single Market through clusters development and internationalization. Having considered the clusters’ role and characteristics, in order to determine their potential for growth and...
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CLUSTER POLICIES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION - ENGINES FOR SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COMPETITIVENESS
Ion, Popa; Cristina, Vlasceanu - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2013) 1, pp. 1581-1587
The present article wishes to present the topic of clusters and cluster policies, to highlight their status and role in the European Union and to underline their significant purpose in obtaining a sustainable economic development, and in making a more competitive and well oiled Europe. The...
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How does FDI inflow affect productivity of domestic firms? The role of horizontal and vertical spillovers, absorptive capacity and competition
Marcin, Kolasa - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 17 (2008) 1, pp. 155-173
exploiting firm-level panel data covering the Polish corporate sector. We distinguish between horizontal spillovers (from foreign … to domestic firms operating in the same industry) and two types of vertical spillovers: backward (from FDI in downstream … industries) and forward spillovers (from FDI in upstream industries). The main findings are as follows. Local firms benefit from …
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R&D, Spillovers and Performance among Heterogenous Firms. An Empirical Study Using Microdata
Klette, Tor Jakob - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1994
Empirical research has established that there is a significant, positive relationship between productivity growth and R&D- expenditure at the firm level. Yet, while interesting, the conventional production function approach applied in such studies has some well known limitations. <br> This paper...
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Africa’s Rising Exposure to China: How Large Are Spillovers Through Trade?
Drummond, Paulo; Liu, Estelle X. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2013
countries, away from advanced economies, they have also led SSA countries to become more susceptible to spillovers from China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011142109
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A global monetary tsunami? On the spillovers of US Quantitative Easing
Fratzscher, Marcel; Lo Duca, Marco; Straub, Roland - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The paper analyses the global spillovers of the Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary policy measures since 2007 … policy spillovers, but rather that responses to Fed policies are related to country risk. The results thus illustrate how US …
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