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The paper presents a new sectoral taxonomy that combines manufacturing and service industries within the same general framework. This exercise is relevant because it seeks to achieve a greater integration between the study of sectoral patterns of innovation in manufacturing and services, and to...
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channels seem to be complement, rather than substitute, strategies to compete in foreign markets; (3) sectoral specificities …
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This paper investigates the empirical relevance of a model of structural change and the growth of industrial sectors. The model analyses the process of diffusion of general-purpose technologies (GPTs) and how this affects the dynamic performance of manufacturing and service industries. The...
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Several surveys on intra-industry dynamics have recently reached the conclusion from a large body of evidence that Gibrat's Law does not hold, i.e., the main finding is that firm growth decreases with firm size. However, almost all of these studies have been based on manufacturing. In this paper...
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prices via the response of traded commodities in domestic markets. It shows that the impact on local prices of shocks … originating in global markets lasts much longer than suggested by findings in the traditional literature on market integration … staple foods markets. The results suggests that it takes much longer for the impact of shocks on local prices to stabilize …
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The Chad Rural Policy Note builds on the findings of a rural sector stocktaking exercise. An initial draft of the note was prepared as a just-in-time study designed to contribute to the preparation of the Chad Interim Strategy Note. This finalized version of the note intended mainly to establish...
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This study evaluates attitudes of Turkish university students towards markets and influence of taking a course in …
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Purpose of the review: This review presents recent research on collective action in agricultural markets, focusing on … between the group and others. Findings: Collective action in agricultural markets is facilitated by institutional arrangements … requirements in modern markets and to effectively use postharvest technologies. Research points to the importance of formal and …
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The equivalence of markets and games concerns the relationship between two sorts of structures that appear … fundamentally different -- markets and games. Shapley and Shubik (1969) demonstrates that: (1) games derived from markets with … is one where the commodities are the participants themselves, a labor market for example. But markets are very special …
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The main objective of this paper is to present a reading of The Arcades Project by Walter Benjamin in the context of the financial crisis, in particular, reflect from a few fragments of Benjamin's work appear to lie around a Black Swan. The recovery of the fragments of The Arcades seems...
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