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Neil Foster Economist e-mail: foster@wiiw.ac.at Phone: (+43-1) 533 66 10-55 Economic growth and development, international trade and globalization, innovation and technology transfer, intellectual property rights, applied econometrics |
External Publications
Articles in refereed journals
- 'The impact of preferential trade agreements on the margins of international trade' (with Johannes Pöschl and Robert Stehrer), Economic Systems, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2011, pp. 84-97
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0939362510000774 - 'Preferential trade agreements and the structure of international trade' (with Robert Stehrer), Review of World Economics, Vol. 147, No. 3, 2011, pp. 385-409
http://www.springerlink.com/content/rk811445678qj703/ - 'Determinants of Regional Economic Growth by Quantile' (with Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma and Robert Stehrer), Regional Studies, Vol. 45, No. 6, 2011, pp. 809-826
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00343401003713456 - 'Labour Market Rigidities and International Risk Sharing Across OECD Countries' (with Jarko Fidrmuc and Johann Scharler), Journal of International Money and Finance, Vol. 30, No. 4, June 2011, pp. 660-677
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261560611000337 - 'The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on Intra-Industry Trade' (with Robert Stehrer), Review of World Economics, Vol. 147, No. 3, 2011, pp. 385-409
http://www.springerlink.com/content/rk811445678qj703/ - 'Trade, Imitative Ability and Intellectual Property Rights' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), Review of World Economics, Vol. 145, No. 3, 2009, pp. 373-404
http://www.springerlink.com/content/k1224075831m8535/ - 'Sectoral Productivity, Density and Agglomeration in the Wider Europe' (with Robert Stehrer), Spatial Economic Analysis, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2009, pp. 377-396
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17421770903317629 - 'The Impact of Trade Liberalisation on Economic Growth: Evidence from a Quantile Regression Analysis', Kyklos, Vol. 61, No. 4, 2008, pp. 543-567
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-6435.2008.00417.x/abstract - 'Imported Equipment, Human Capital and Economic Growth in Developing Countries' (with Uwe Dulleck), Economic Analysis and Policy, Vol. 38, No. 2, 2008, pp. 233-250
- 'Barriers to Technology Adoption, International R&D Spillovers and Growth' (with Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma and Johann Scharler), Economics Bulletin, Vol. 15, No. 3, 2008, pp. 1-7
- 'Relative Backwardness, Absorptive Capacity and Knowledge Spillovers' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), Economics Letters, Vol. 97, No. 3, 2007, pp. 230-234
- 'Modeling Transformation in CEECs Using Smooth Transitions' (with Robert Stehrer), Journal of Comparative Economics, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2007, pp. 57-86
- 'Intellectual Property Rights and Economic Growth' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), Review of Development Economics, Vol. 10, No. 4, 2006, pp. 700-719
- 'Exports, Growth and Threshold Effects in Africa', Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 42, No. 6, 2006, pp. 1056-1074
- 'Does Venture Capital Investment spur Employment Growth' (with Ansgar Belke and Rainer Fehn), Finance India, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006, pp. 75-98
- 'Dimensions of Quality Upgrading - Evidence for CEEC's' (with Uwe Dulleck, Robert Stehrer and Julia Wörz), The Economics of Transition, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2005, pp. 51-76
- 'Imports, Exports, Knowledge Spillovers and Growth' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), Economics Letters, Vol. 85, No. 2, 2004, pp. 209-213
- 'Venture Capital Investment and Employment Growth' (with Ansgar Belke and Rainer Fehn), Problems and Perspectives in Management, No. 1/2004, 2004, pp. 5-19
- 'North-South Trade, Knowledge Spillovers and Growth' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 17, No. 4, 2002, pp. 650-670
- 'Book Review of 'The New Global Economy and Developing Countries: Making Openness Work' by Dani Rodrik', Journal of International Development, Vol. 12, No. 5, 2000, pp. 765-766
Articles in books
- 'Venture Capital Investment and Labour Market Performance: A Panel Data Analysis' (with Ansgar Belke and Rainer Fehn), in: V. Kanniainen and C. Keuschnigg (eds), Venture Capital, Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004
- 'On the Determinants of Absorptive Capacity: Evidence from OECD Countries' (with Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma and Johann Scharler), Current Issues in Economic Growth, Proceedings of OeNB Workshops, OeNB, Vienna, 2004, pp. 58-81
Articles in non-refereed journals
- 'Why Transition Countries may Specialize in Low Quality Production' (with Uwe Dulleck), Transition Studies Review, Vol. 11, No. 3, 2005, pp. 114-124
Other working papers and discussion series
- 'Trade Liberalisation, Economic Crises and Growth' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), GEP Research Paper, No. 2008/14, The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy, The University of Nottingham, 2008
- 'Sectoral Productivity, Density and Agglomeration in the Wider Europe' (with Robert Stehrer), MICRO-DYN Working Paper, No. 01/08, 2008
- 'Imported Equipment, Human Capital and Economic Growth in Developing Countries' (with Uwe Dulleck), National Centre for Econometric Research Working Paper, No. 16, 2007
- 'Labour Market Rigidities, Financial Integration and International Risk Sharing in the OECD' (with Jarko Fidrmuc and Johann Scharler), CESifo Working Paper, No. 2028, June 2007
- 'North-South Trade, Openness and Growth' (with Rod Falvey and David Greenaway), University of Vienna, Faculty of Economics Working Paper, No. 0108, June 2001
wiiw Publications
wiiw Monthly Reports
- 'Recent trends in the quality of traded goods: NMS are closing the gaps' (with Johannes Pöschl and Robert Stehrer), in: Leon Podkaminer (ed), Monthly Report No. 3/2011, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 3, Vienna, March 2011, pp. 12-19
- 'Are CEECs trapped in low-quality export specialization?' (with Robert Stehrer and Julia Wörz), Monthly Report 08-09/2003, wiiw Monthly Report, No. 8-9, Vienna, August/September 2003, pp. 10-17
wiiw Research Reports
- 'Revival of the Visegrad Countries’ Mutual Trade after their EU Accession: a Search for Explanation' (with Gabor Hunya, Olga Pindyuk and Sandor Richter), wiiw Research Report, No. 372, Vienna, July 2011
- 'Trade in Intermediate Products and EU Manufacturing Supply Chains ' (with Jyrki Ali-Yrkkö, Doris Hanzl-Weiss, Petri Rouvinen, Timo Seppälä, Robert Stehrer, Roman Stöllinger and Pekka Ylä-Anttila), wiiw Research Report, No. 369, Vienna, February 2011
wiiw Working Papers
- 'The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on the Margins of International Trade' (with Johannes Pöschl and Robert Stehrer), wiiw Working Paper, No. 70, Vienna, September 2010
- 'Preferential Trade Agreements and the Structure of International Trade' (with Robert Stehrer), wiiw Working Paper, No. 61, Vienna, January 2010
- 'The Importance of Labour Mobility for Spillovers across Industries' (with Johannes Pöschl), wiiw Working Paper, No. 58, Vienna, October 2009
- 'The Determinants of Regional Economic Growth by Quantile' (with Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma and Robert Stehrer), wiiw Working Paper, No. 54, Vienna, May 2009
- 'Sectoral Productivity, Density and Agglomeration in the Wider Europe' (with Robert Stehrer), wiiw Working Paper, No. 47, Vienna, September 2008
- 'Modelling GDP in CEECs Using Smooth Transitions' (with Robert Stehrer), wiiw Working Paper, No. 36, Vienna, December 2005
- 'Dimensions of Quality Upgrading in CEECs' (with Uwe Dulleck, Robert Stehrer and Julia Wörz), wiiw Working Paper, No. 29, Vienna, April 2004
