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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?
(2007-06)
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 among all firms as well as a subset of firms ...
When Does FDI Have Positive Spillovers? Evidence from 17 Emerging Market Economies
(2007-10)
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 ...
Ownership, Control and Corporate Performance After Large-Scale Privatization
(2004-02-01)
We analyze the effects of ownership type and concentration on performance of a population of firms in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). Using specifications based on first-differences and unique ...
The Effects of Ownership Forms and Concentration on Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization
(2002-05-01)
We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We reject the ...
How Robust is Comparative Advantage?
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2005-11)
This paper reviews the theoretical development of the concept of comparative advantage, starting with the two-good model of Ricardo and the two-good extension and reinterpretation by Haberler. In both, the presence of ...
Patterns of Trade and Growth across Cones
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 2000-06)
This paper examines the implications of the Heckscher-Ohlin (HO) Model for the patterns of production and trade that will emerge as a country grows. It focuses primarily on world equilibria that include two or more cones ...
Divestitures, privatization and corporate performance in emerging markets
(Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2009-01)
We use new firm-level data to examine the effects of firm divestitures and privatization on corporate performance in a rapidly emerging market economy. Unlike the existing literature, we control for accompanying ownership ...
Ownership and Firm Performance after Large-Scale Privatization
(2003-02-01)
We analyze the effect of ownership on post-privatization performance in a virtually complete population of medium and large firms privatized in a model large-scale privatization economy (Czech Republic). We find that ...
Objectives and Constraints of Entrepreneurs: Evidence from Small and Medium Size Enterprises in Russia and Bulgaria
(2000-10-01)
We analyze the principal objectives and constraints of small and medium enterprises (SMEs), using data from a survey of 437 owners and top managers (CEOs) of SMEs in Russia and Bulgaria. The CEOs display similar views and ...
Reversal of fortune: Macroeconomic policy, International Finance, and Banking in Japan
(Springer-Verlag, 2005-11)
This essay provides an introduction and overview for a symposium on macroeconomic policy, international finance and banking in Japan. The symposium consists of thirteen papers. Nine of the papers including most of those ...