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When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
(2007-10-16)
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the efficiency of domestic firms ...
Worker-Firm Matching and Unemployment in Transition to a Market Economy: (Why) Were the Czechs More Successful than Others?
(1998-01-01)
Using panel district level data from the Czech and Slovak Republic in the 1990s, we find that the exceptionally low unemployment rate in the Czech Republic as compared to Slovakia and the other CEE economies has been brought ...
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
(2008-10-17)
We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI)on the efficiency of domestic firms ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2005-01-01)
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2008-10-16)
Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and
Russia, economies ...
Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development:Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?*
(2006-04-06)
Development implies that the efficiency of local firms converges to that of firms in advanced economies. We examine this using 1992-2000 panel data on virtually all industrial firms in the Czech Republic and Russia. We ...
Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers
(2004-09-01)
We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both ...
Women's Unemployment During The Transition: Evidence From Czech And Slovak Micro Data
(1998-05)
We analyse women?s weekly probabilities of leaving unemployment in the Czech and Slovak Republics (CR and SR) to investigate three questions: a) Why are unemployment rates much lower in the CR than the SR? b) Does the ...