Documents & Reports
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Czech suppliers of multinational corporations : benefits and challenges (English)
This report provides a broader context for the evaluation of the Czech invest's supplier development program (SDP). This is done by analyzing: (i) the factors driving sourcing decisions of multinational...
Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 90807 Document Date: January 1, 2014 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Smarzynska, Beata,Spatareanu,Mariana
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Liquidity constraints and firms linkages with multinationals (English)
Using a unique data set on the Czech Republic for 1994-2003, this article examines the relationship between a firm's liquidity constraints and its supply linkages with multinational corporations (MNCs)...
Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77621 Document Date: June 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Javorcik,Beata,Spatareanu,Mariana
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The World Bank economic review 23 (2) (English)
This issue includes the following: dollar a day revisited, by Martin Ravallion, Shaohua Chen, and Prem Sangraula; evidence on changes in aid allocation criteria, by Stijn Claessens, Danny Cassimon, and...
Document Type: Publication Report No.: 62985 Document Date: January 1, 2009 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cassimon,Danny Pierre,Chen,Shaohua,Claessens, Stijn,Clemens, John,Fafchamps,Marcel,Javorcik,Beata,Jeuland,Marc,Kandilov,Ivan,Lucas, Marcelino,De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Owens,Trudy,Ravallion,Martin,Sangraula,Prem Prasad,Spatareanu,Mariana,Van Campenhout,Bjorn Fh,Whittington,Dale,De Walque,Damien B. C. M.
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Migrant networks and foreign direct investment (English)
While there exists sizeable literature documenting the importance of ethnic networks for international trade, little attention has been devoted to studying the effects of networks on foreign direct investment...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4046 Document Date: November 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Javorcik,Beata,Neagu, Cristina,Ozden,Caglar,Spatareanu,Mariana
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Does it matter where you come from? vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment and the nationality of investors (English)
The authors use a firm-level panel data set from Romania to examine whether the nationality of foreign investors affects the degree of vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment. Investors' country...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3449 Document Date: November 1, 2004 Author: Javorcik,Beata,Saggi,Kamal,Spatareanu,Mariana
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Income-related biases in international trade : what do trademark registration data tell us? (English)
Economists have long recognized that richer countries trade more among themselves than with poorer economies due to a closer match of exporter supply structures and importer preferences. In the literature...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3150 Document Date: October 1, 2003 Author: Fink,Carsten,Javorcik,Beata,Spatareanu,Mariana
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To share or not to share : does local participation matter for spillovers from foreign direct investment? (English)
This paper examines whether the degree of spillovers from foreign direct investment is affected by the foreign ownership share in investment projects. The analysis, based on an unbalanced panel of Romanian...
Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3118 Document Date: August 1, 2003 Author: Javorcik,Beata,Spatareanu,Mariana