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Mécanismes de reproduction des entrepreneurs de PME et dynamique des districts industriels italiens
Lanciano, Emilie - HAL - 2006
Notre article vise à comprendre la dynamique des systèmes de production composés de PME sur la base de l'analyse empirique d'un district artisanal italien du Nord-Est - le district de Bassano. Son objectif est de montrer que la compétitivité et la capacité de ce district artisanal à...
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Societal Comparison and Social Change of the Family Division of Labour
Barrère-Maurisson, Marie-Agnès - HAL - 2000
In the case of the comparative societal analysis, the methodological problems are not simple methodological questions but of real theoretical questions. One will take the example of an international comparison relating to the division of the paid work and unpaid, to show how should have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750615
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Invention and transfer of climate change-mitigation technologies: A global analysis
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine; Glachant, Matthieu; Hascic, Ivan - HAL - 2011
This article uses the European Patent Office Worldwide Patent Statistical Database to examine the geographic distribution and global diffusion of inventions in thirteen climate-mitigation technologies since 1978. The data suggest that until 1990 innovation was driven mostly by energy prices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792117
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Entry mode choice and target firm selection: private and collective incentive analysis
Zhao, Kai - HAL - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenfield investment Vs Cross … export credible threats. If greenfield FDI is viable, entering firm prefers acquiring the low-productivity firm, when the …, there is always the ambiguity between the foreign firm's preference and the government's judgment. If export entry option is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899386
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Intra-firm and arm's length trade: how distance matters?
Bombarda, Pamela - HAL - 2011
Multinational and exporting firms play a key role in trade patterns. To highlight the importance of intra-firm trade in share of world trade, this paper develops a model of trade and intra-firm trade with heterogeneous firms. In this set up, trade costs apply to both exports and multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899726
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Environmental quality, public debt and economic development
Fodha, Mouez; Seegmuller, Thomas - HAL - 2011
This article analyzes the consequences on capital accumulation and environmental quality of environmental policies financed by public debt. A public sector of pollution abatement is financed by a tax and/or public debt. We show that if the initial capital stock is high enough, the economy...
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Credit Constraints, Entrepreneurial Talent, and Economic Development
Bianchi, Milo - HAL - 2010
In this paper, we formalize the view that economic development requires high rates of productive entrepreneurship, and this requires an e¢ cient matching between entrepreneurial talent and production technologies. We …rst explore the role of …nancial development in promoting such e¢ cient...
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How costly is rent-seeking to diversification : an empirical approach
Waldemar, Felipe Starosta De - HAL - 2010
more than 130 countries between 1995 and 2007, using a highly disaggregated export database comprising more than 5000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549111
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Entrepreneurship and Rent-Seeking Behavior
Dejardin, Marcus - HAL - 2011
entrepreneurs between different types of economic projects, namely between innovative entrepreneurship and rent-seeking, as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278310
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When Does a Developing Country Use New Technologies?
Bruno, Olivier; Van, Cuong Le; Masquin, Benoît - HAL - 2009
We develop a model of optimal pattern of economic development that is first rooted in physical capital accumulation and then in technical progress. We study an economy where capital accumulation and innovative activity take place within a two sector model. The first sector produces a...
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