Low carbon productivity has been identified as a key direction for China's future
development. As an important driving force for economic growth, the question of whether …

This paper investigates whether emerging economy multinational enterprises (EMEs) that
undertake outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) become more productive, controlling for …

We examine whether ex post domestic productivity gains accrue to firms making cross‐
border acquisitions. We argue that cross‐border acquisitions can enhance the acquirers' …

Using feasible generalized least squares (FGLS) and ordinary least square (OLS)
estimations on a dataset of 1208 outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI) events by …

In this study, we analyse the relationship between financial development and energy
intensity in 28 Chinese provinces over the period 1999 to 2014. Using a wide variety of …

In this paper, we analyze the role played by capital goods imports in the long-run growth of
developing countries. We focus in the case of the Chinese economy in the last few decades …

The relationship between infrastructure investment and economic growth is explored for the
main urban areas of Mexico during the period 1985-2008. The methodology consists of a …

Although the analysis of the relationship between international trade and economic growth
has a longstanding tradition in economic literature, the link between export variety and …

Since China's transition to a market economy, the labour productivity growth has been
dramatically rapid, in particular since 1994. This speeding up has been accompanied by the …

The objective of this paper is to examine the effect of military expenditure on productivity
performance in 70 countries, over the period 1989–2011. We employ the labour productivity …