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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 ...
Why leave wikipedia?
(iConference, 2008-02)
Among active editors, earlier adopters tend to stay for longer. Higher edit frequency leads to higher likelihood of quitting.
For new users, on their first day, creators are more likely to stay than preservers, and
destroyers ...
The possibility of factor price equalization, revisited
(Elsevier, 1994-02)
This paper derives a condition for factor price equalization (FPE) in a Heckscher-Ohlin model with many goods, factors, and countries. Using Dixit and Norman's integrated world economy (IWE), two sets, called lenses, are ...
Do Institutions, Ownership, Exporting and Competition Explain Firm Performance? Evidence from 26 Transition Countries
(2007-02-26)
We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm’s top manager’s perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike ...
Information Bundling in a Dynamic Environment
(2001-10)
Markets for digital information goods provide the possibility of exploring new and more complex pricing schemes, due to information goods' flexibility and negligible marginal cost. In this paper we compare the dynamic ...
Does Foreign Exchange Reserve Decumulation Lead to Currency Appreciation?
(2010-06-14)
Many developing countries have increased their foreign reserve stocks dramatically in recent years, in large part motivated by the desire for precautionary self-insurance. One of the negative consequences of large accumulations ...
Racial prejudice in a search model of the urban housing market
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
A simple model of buyer search in an urban housing market is employed to demonstrate that if some whites are unwilling to sell housing to blacks competitive equilibria in which blacks pay more for housing than whites are ...
The appropriate extent of intellectual property rights in art
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media, 1995-06)
The paper examines whether intellectual property rights in art should be extended to the entire world. In earlier papers, the economics of patent rights have been examined and the argument made that world welfare is likely ...
System Design, User Cost and Electronic Usage of Journals
(2000-09)
Dramatic increases in the capabilities and decreases in the costs of computers and communi-cation networks have fomented revolutionary thoughts in the scholarly publishing community. In one dimension, traditional pricing ...