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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...
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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion
Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083814
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Peer Effects, Risk Pooling, and Status Seeking: What Explains Gift Spending Escalation in Rural China?
Chen, Xi; Kanbur, Ravi; Zhang, Xiaobo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
It has been widely documented that the poor spend a significant proportion of their income on gifts even at the expense of basic consumption. We test three competing explanations of this phenomenon--peer effect, status concern, and risk pooling--based on a census-type primary household survey in...
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
In our model, workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either through formal agencies or through informal networks of contacts (word-of-mouth communication). From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789195
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Make Trade not War?
Martin, Philippe; Mayer, Thierry; Thoenig, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically the relationship between trade and war. We show that the intuition that trade promotes peace is only partially true even in a model where trade is beneficial to all, war reduces trade and leaders take into account the costs of war. When war can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504509
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Globalization and Democracy
Hamilton, Carl B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The Paper analyses (i) if globalization is undemocratic, (ii) if NGOs can fill a gap in representation and … democracy and globalization. A major part deals with the question of whether globalization enhances democracy. The answer is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497698
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US Special Safeguard on Imports of Tires from China: Imposing Pain for Little Gain
Charnovitz, Steve; Hoekman, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In 2009, the United States imposed additional tariffs for a three-year period on imports of automotive tires from China under a special-safeguard provision included in China’s Protocol of Accession to the WTO. China challenged the measure in the WTO. The case marked the first WTO dispute in...
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Credit Constraints and Growth in a Global Economy
Coeurdacier, Nicolas; Guibaud, Stéphane; Jin, Keyu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
In a period of rapid integration and accelerated growth in emerging markets, three striking trends have been (1) a divergence in the private saving rates of emerging markets and advanced economies, (2) large net capital outflows from emerging markets, and (3) a sustained decline in the world...
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Does Trade Globalization Induce or Inhibit Corporate Transparency? Unbundling the Growth Potential and Product Market Competition Channels
Tong, Hui; Wei, Shang-Jin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents two facets and in theory has …-country-year level, and a second measure of globalization-induced product market competition based on a country’s own tariff … globalization promotes corporate transparency, especially in industries that depend heavily on external financing. At the same time …
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Who Needs the Nation State?
Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The design of institutions is shaped by a fundamental trade-off. On the one hand, relationships and heterogeneity push governance down. On the other, the scale and scope benefits of market integration push governance up. A corner solution is rarely optimal. An intermediate outcome, a world...
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