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Katharine Wakelin
Researcher at University of Nottingham
Publications - 25
Citations - 2934
Katharine Wakelin is an academic researcher from University of Nottingham. The author has contributed to research in topics: Foreign direct investment & Productivity. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 25 publications receiving 2830 citations. Previous affiliations of Katharine Wakelin include Economic Policy Institute.
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Innovation and export behaviour at the firm level
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of innovation in determining export behavior for a sample of UK firms including both innovating and non-innovating firms was investigated. And the authors concluded that the capacity to innovate changes the behaviour of the firm relative to non-innovating firms, while the number of past innovations has a positive impact on the probability of an innovative firm exporting.
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Do Domestic Firms Learn to Export from Multinationals
TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify possible transmission mechanisms for export spillovers and test for their existence on a large panel of firms in the UK and confirm positive spillover effects from MNEs on the decision to export of UK-owned firms as well as on their export propensity.
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Who Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate if there is any productivity or wage gap between foreign and domestic firms in the UK and if the presence of foreign firms in a sector raises the productivity of domestic firms.
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Who Benefits from Foreign Direct Investment in the UK
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate if there is any productivity or wage gap between foreign and domestic firms in the UK and if the presence of foreign firms in a sector raises the productivity of domestic firms.
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Efficiency, innovation and exports
TL;DR: For example, the authors found that the probability that a firm is an exporter is higher if it is in a sector with high R&D expenditures (relative to output), which is consistent with product cycle theories of trade.