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Foreign Ownership and Firm Performance: Emerging-Market Acquisitions in the United States
(2009-09-10)
This paper examines the recent upsurge in foreign acquisitions of U.S. firms, specifically focusing on acquisitions made by firms located in emerging markets. Neoclassical theory predicts that, on net, capital should flow ...
Job Creation and Job Destruction in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets
(2007-09-13)
Recessions and policy interventions in labour markets in developing countries are
characterized not only by changes in the unemployment rate, but also by changes
in the proportion of formal or protected jobs. This ...
China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies
(2007-06-13)
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it had a more agricultural economy and a more stable ...
Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements
(2006-09-18)
In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in ...
The Microeconomic Implications of Input Market Regulations: Cross-Country Evidence from Within the Firm
(2007-03-19)
We investigate the microeconomic effects of labor regulations that protect employment and are expected to increase rigidity in labor markets. We exploit a unique outlet-level dataset obtained from a multinational food chain ...