This study empirically investigates the presence of crowding out effects emerging from intra- developing country competition in export markets for manufactured goods. Export equations are estimated for a panel consisting of twenty major developing country exporters of manufactures, after...

This paper examines the role of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in firm selection processes in the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period by assessing the impact of the entry and presence of foreign firms on a domestic firm’s probability of exiting. The results confirm...

We develop the barebones of a highly stylized theoretical endogenous growth model for analyzing the impact of R&D investment on long run growth. We use this framework to identify a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model on GDP growth, inflation and R&D investment, along with the...

En 2007, los países de la periferia europea disfrutaban de un crecimiento estable, y défi cits fi scales y primas de riesgo reducidos. Sin embargo, la crisis fi nanciera global empujó a estas mismas economías a profundas recesiones, aumentando sus défi cits públicos y volúmenes de deuda...

This paper studied the giving patterns of Filipino evangelicals and what the implications of these giving patterns are in developing fund raising strategies of evangelical non-government organization (NGOs) in the Philippines. The main methodology used by the study was a random survey of...

We compare the welfare costs of tax distortions of labour supply in one and two member household discrete and continuous labour supply (leisure consumption) choice models. In the discrete models taxes induce a large response from a subset of the population, while the majority of the population...