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The fact that China is the second largest recipient of FDI in the world has been heralded by economists and government … on FDI from ethnically Chinese economies (ECEs), which has financed China's labor-intensive industries and its export … growth. First, the paper shows that the conventional wisdom about why China attracts so much labor-intensive FDI is flawed …
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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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host country on inward foreign direct investment (FDI), fewer studies have researched on the locational aspects of FDI in … FDI in Poland’s regions and in other CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) countries. Design/methodology/approach The paper … develops a theoretical argument postulating that political economy affects locational determinants of FDI inflow. To test this …
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and domestic investors. Regions with the highest employment rates may boast high doses of FDI inflows, while low … distribution of foreign and domestic employment. The second section analyses the spatial distribution of FDI and domestic firms …
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In this paper we use new statistics on Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in Transitional Economies (TEs) to analyze the … determinants of FDI location choices in TEs providing new empirical evidence, and distinguishing among different levels of foreign …
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China is one of the most popular investment destinations in the world. This paper argues that FDI inflows into China … to do with a high level of fragmentation of both goods and asset markets. This fragmentation increases demand for FDI …
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