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Badinger, Harald - 2011

Over the last decades there has been a sizeable increase in trade and financial openness, triggered by current and capital account liberalization as well as improvements in transport and communication technologies. As a consequence, the importance of spillover effects is likely to have increased...

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Is Islam Really a Development Blockade? 12 Predictors of Development, Including Membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and Their Influence on 14 Indicators of Development in 109 Countries of the World With Completely Available Data

Tausch, Arno - 2008

three-fold empirical understanding of the process of globalization reliance on foreign savings, MNC penetration and unequal …

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On-the-job Training and Productivity : Firm-level Evidence from a Large Developing Country

Liu, Qing; Lu, Ruosi - 2021

We investigate the effects of on-the-job training on firm productivity and wages.We use a large panel data set of manufacturing firms in China with national representativeness.We combine the propensity score matching and the difference-in-differences techniques to estimate the treatment effect...

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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions and development

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Globalization and poverty : evidence for lower-middle income country

Nwosa, Philip Ifeakachukwu; Adeoye, Temitope Adebisi - In: Economic review : journal of economics & business 19 (2021) 1, pp. 63-72

The study examined the impact of globalization on poverty rate with evidence from middle-income country. It focused on … globalization had negative and significant impact on poverty rate in Nigeria. Therefore, the conclusion was made that globalization … ensure that the dividend of economic growth from globalization is properly shared among the poor, as this would reduce the …

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Trade with Asia and Skill Upgrading : Effects on Labor Markets in the Older Industrial Countries

Tyers, Rod; Yang, Yongzheng - 1998

The trade and labor nexus is examined with a model incorporating refinements which weaken the H-O-S result that free trade can cause factor rewards to equalize. Asian growth and rising openness in the period 1970-1992, taken in isolation, are found to confer net benefits in the older...

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Short and Long-Run Labor Market Effects of Developing Country Exports : Evidence from Bangladesh

Robertson, Raymond - 2020

This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with...

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Trade with Asia and Skill Upgrading : Effects on Labor Markets in the Older Industrial Countries

Tyers, Rod; Yang, Yongzheng - 2000

The trade and labour nexus is examined with a model incorporating refinements which weaken the H-O-S result that free trade can cause factor rewards to equalize. Asian growth and rising openness in the period 1970-1992, taken in isolation, are found to confer net benefits in the older...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074821

Liquidity-driven FDI

Alquist, Ron; Mukherjee, Rahul; Tesar, Linda L. - 2014

We develop a model of foreign direct investment (FDI) in which financially liquid foreign firms acquire liquidity-constrained target firms. Using a large dataset of emerging-market acquisitions, we find evidence supporting three central predictions of the model: (i) firms in external finance...

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Can Firms Learn by Observing? Evidence from Cross-Border M&As

Francis, Bill B. - 2014

In the presence of high uncertainty and limited experience, can observing the actions of other acquiring predecessors help firms make better acquisition decisions? Using a sample of cross-border M&As conducted by US acquirers in developing countries, we document a positive and significant...

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