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Autocracies and Development in a Global Economy: A Tale of Two Elites

Akerman, Anders; Larsson, Anna; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2011

Data on the growth performances of countries with similar comparative (dis)advantage and political institutions reveal … a striking variation across world regions. While some former autocracies such as the East Asian growth miracles have …

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Firm Heterogeneity, Contract Enforcement, and the Industry Dynamics of Offshoring

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Naghavi, Alireza - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

We develop an endogenous growth model to study the long run consequences of offshoring with firm heterogeneity and … possibility of offshoring has favorable implications for economic growth. Yet, offshoring induced by a higher bargaining power of … the upstream division can hamper growth: while there is always a positive correlation between upstream bargaining weight …

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Affect the Performance of Firms?

Vergalli, Sergio; Poddi, Laura - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2009

Over the last two decades in OECD countries increasingly more firms are certifying as Socially Responsible (CSR is the acronym for Corporate Social Responsibility). This kind of certification is assigned by private companies that guarantee that a certain firm’s behaviour is environmentally and...

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Assessing the Role of Microfinance in Fostering Adaptation to Climate Change

Agrawala, Shardul; Carraro, Maëlis - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2010

the 22 leading microfinance institutions in two climate vulnerable countries – Bangladesh and Nepal - are analysed to …

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