Firm-level upgrading in developing countries

E Verhoogen - Journal of Economic Literature, 2023 - aeaweb.org
In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

[HTML][HTML] Innovation and export performance of emerging market enterprises: The roles of state and foreign ownership in China

G Dong, A Kokko, H Zhou - International Business Review, 2022 - Elsevier
This article examines the role of ownership for the relationship between innovation and
exports. Analyzing a large firm-level data set on Chinese manufacturing firms during 2000 …

Air pollution and manufacturing firm productivity: Nationwide estimates for China

S Fu, VB Viard, P Zhang - The Economic Journal, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We provide nationwide causal estimates of air pollution's effect on short-run productivity for
China's manufacturing sector from 1998 to 2007. Using thermal inversions as an instrument …

Foreign direct investment's impact on China's economic growth, technological innovation and pollution

S Zeng, Y Zhou - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2021 - mdpi.com
In recent years, China has gradually become one of the countries with the largest levels of
foreign direct investment (FDI). FDI has played a significant role in promoting Chinese …

Fixed asset changes with carbon regulation: the cases of China

H Dong, W Liu, Y Liu, Z Xiong - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Carbon regulation might threaten corporate competitiveness and thus guide their production
and investment behaviours. Using the difference-in-differences (DID) model, we analyze the …

Quantifying productivity gains from foreign investment

C Fons-Rosen, S Kalemli-Ozcan, BE Sørensen… - Journal of International …, 2021 - Elsevier
We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms.
First, we construct a panel firm-level dataset for eight advanced European countries …

Foreign ownership and productivity

J Xu, Y Liu, H Abdoh - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of foreign ownership on firm productivity in private firms,
employing the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) dataset, which includes over 120, 000 …

Firm characteristics, business environment, strategic orientation, and performance

S Handoyo, S Mulyani, EK Ghani… - Administrative Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the influence of firm characteristics (size,
age, industry type, and ownership) on a firm's strategic orientation. The business …

Foreign investment across the Belt and Road: Patterns, determinants, and effects

MX Chen, C Lin - World Bank Policy Research Working Paper, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the patterns and economic effects of foreign direct investment across
the Belt and Road Initiative countries and assesses the potential role of the initiative in …

Does foreign ownership affect corporate sustainability disclosure in Pakistan? A sequential mixed methods approach

A Rustam, Y Wang, H Zameer - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
The objective of this study is to investigate the potential impacts of foreign ownership on the
corporate sustainability disclosure of leading non-financial companies in the context of an …