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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 ...