The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylized Facts (2007)
Eugenia Baroncelli, Carsten Fink, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
Trademarks are words, signs, symbols or combinations thereof that identify goods as manufactured by a particular person or a company, therefore allowing consumers to distinguish between goods...
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth? (2005)
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Wei, Shang-Jin
The "pollution haven" hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in highly polluting activities, relocate to countries with weaker environmental...
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth? (2005)
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Wei, Shang-Jin
The "pollution haven" hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in highly polluting activities, relocate to countries with weaker environmental...
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth? (2005)
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Wei, Shang-Jin
The "pollution haven" hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in highly polluting activities, relocate to countries with weaker environmental...
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth? (2005)
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Wei, Shang-Jin
The "pollution haven" hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in highly polluting activities, relocate to countries with weaker environmental...
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
Abstract: This study 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...
Trade Protection and Industry Wage Structure in Poland
Chor-ching Goh, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
This study examines the impact of Poland's trade liberalization 1994-2001 on the industry wage structure. The liberalization was undertaken in preparation for Poland's accession to the European Union...
Many countries strive to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) hoping that knowledge brought by multinationals will spill over to domestic industries and increase their productivity. In contrast...
Gifted kids or pushy parents? Foreign acquisitions and plant performance in Indonesia
Arnold, Jens Matthias, Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska
This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of...
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
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...
Technological asymmetry among foreign investors and mode of entry
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Saggi, Kamal
How does the preferred entry mode of foreign investors depend on their technological capability relative to that of their rivals? The authors develop a simple model of entry mode choice and evaluate...
Trade costs and location of foreign firms in China
Amiti, Mary, Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska
The authors examine the determinants of entry by foreign firms using information on 515 Chinese industries at the provincial level during 1998-2001. The analysis, rooted in the new economic...
The Global Distribution of Trademarks: Some Stylised Facts
Eugenia Baroncelli, Carsten Fink, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
This paper provides the first empirical analysis of the global distribution of trademarks. It is based on a new dataset compiled by the authors from the statistical information published by the World...
Harding, Torfinn, Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska
Many countries spend significant resources on investment promotion agencies in the hope of attracting inflows of foreign direct investment. Despite the importance of this question for public policy...
Differentiated Products and Evasion of Import Tariffs
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Narciso, Gaia
An emerging literature has demonstrated some unique characteristics of trade in differentiated products. This paper contributes to the literature by postulating that differentiated products may be...
Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Acquisitions and Plant Performance in Indonesia
Jens Matthias Arnold, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of...
Do Foreign Investors Care about Labor Market Regulations?
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
This study investigates whether labor market flexibility affects foreign direct investment (FDI) flows across 19 Western and Eastern European countries. The analysis uses firm level data on new...
Income-Related Biases in International Trade: What Do Trademark Registration Data Tell Us?
Carsten Fink, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
Linder hypothesis, trademarks, product differentiation,
Do Foreign Investors Care about Labor Market Regulations?
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Mariana Spatareanu
Foreign direct investment, labor market regulation, firm level data,
Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska, Li, Yue
During the past two decades many economies have opened their retail sector to foreign direct investment, yet little is known about possible implications of such liberalization on the economies of...
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Wolfgang Keller, James R. Tybout
This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic...
Gifted Kids or Pushy Parents? Foreign Direct Investment and Plant Productivity in Indonesia
Jens Matthias Arnold, Beata Smarzynska Javorcik
This paper uses micro data from the Indonesian Census of Manufacturing to analyze the causal relationship between foreign ownership and various aspects of plant performance. It examines the...
Pollution Havens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?
Beata Smarzynska Javorcik, Shang-Jin Wei
The “pollution haven” hypothesis refers to the possibility that multinational firms, particularly those engaged in highly polluting activities, relocate to countries with weaker environmental...