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jumps, stochastic correlation and portfolio management with benchmarking. …
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Portfolio theory must address the fact that, in reality, portfolio managers are evaluated relative to a benchmark, and therefore adopt risk management practices to account for the benchmark performance. We capture this risk management consideration by allowing a prespecified shortfall from a...
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simple risk management practice that accounts for benchmarking can ameliorate the adverse effects of managerial incentives. …
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This paper uses a combination of Ethier (1982) and Melitz's (2003) models to show that liberalizing trade among developing countries, so-called South-South trade, could contribute to improve the access to international markets of developing countries' would-be exporters. Lower trade barriers...
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downstream sectors, which often face tough international competition. Such firms lose market share, thus worsening the economic … performance of the country. We try to document the importance of this link between competition problems and growth by analysing … from competition problems perform worse in terms of net exports, export growth and output growth. …
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competition, Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly) international competition forces the national government to subsidize innovation. The …
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Using input-output and world price data, this study computes domestic resource costs (DRCs) for branches of manufacturing industry in Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and the former Soviet Union. The results show a wide dispersion of DRCs in each country, including branches with...
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This paper develops a framework for studying the interactions between labour unions, fiscal policy, monetary policy and monopolistically competitive firms. The framework is used to investigate the effects of labour taxes, the replacement ratio, labour market institutions and monetary...
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This paper reviews alternative approaches to measuring an economy's cost competitiveness and proposes some new measures …
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and increase the economy's competitiveness. The driving force behind these results is the technological substitution … production and hence increase international competitiveness and output of the economy. …
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