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This unique, extensive Handbook illustrates that multinational enterprises can contribute substantially to the competitive advantage of small countries. It advances the notion that small nations increasingly need to rely on both home-grown and foreign multinational enterprises to achieve...
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Multinational enterprises and developing countries : background and preview -- Foreign direct investment in developing Asia : trends, patterns and prospects -- Multinational enterprises and manufacturing for export : emerging patterns and opportunities for latecomers -- Product fragmentation and...
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) in economic development in an increasingly globalizing, knowledge-intensive and alliance-based world economy …
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A pollution haven may arise if environmental stringency differs between countries, when capital is mobile, and when trade rules allow firms to relocate and still sell their products to the same customers. This cohesive volume analyzes how country characteristics determine environmental rules,...
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We quantify the effects of the Swedish GCR, a program to reduce oil dependence and greenhouse gas emissions in the automobile industry. We find the GCR to increase the market shares of `green cars' and its cost to be $109/tonCO2 saved, thus 5 times the price of an emission permit. Since the main...
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--and ultimately the implications--of regional inequalities in the most populous country in the world …
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Economics, 43, 231-56 -- Erwin H. Bulte and Edward B. Barbier (2005), 'Trade and Renewable Resources in a Second Best World: An …
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This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of "fiscal federalism", providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors...
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The world economy is near a critical crossroads, as a rising China, the greatest-ever beneficiary of US-led capitalism …, dreams to replace America's supremacy as a new hegemonic power with a non-liberal world order. This third volume of the … trilogy on reformulating the 'flying-geese' theory explains how capitalism has changed industrial structures across the world …
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This Handbook is the first attempt to adapt the IS approach to developing countries from a theoretical and empirical viewpoint. The Handbook brings eminent scholars in economics, innovation and development studies together with promising young researchers to review the literature and push...
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