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Entry mode choice and target firm selection: private and collective incentive analysis

Zhao, Kai - HAL - 2011

export credible threats. If greenﬁeld FDI is viable, entering ﬁrm prefers acquiring the low-productivity ﬁrm, when the …The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenﬁeld investment Vs Cross … border M&A) and the target selection (Acquisition of high-productivity ﬁrm or low-productivity one) for a foreign ﬁrm, and to …

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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...

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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....

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Eliciting preferences on multiattribute societies with a Choquet integral

MEYER, Patrick; Ponthière, Grégory - HAL - 2008

This paper aims at reexamining the construction of indicators of standards of living, by focussing on the challenges raised by the subjectivity and the multidimensionality of living conditions. For that purpose, we propose to apply Choquet integral-based multiattribute value theory to the...

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“Wir, die wir einen Floh beschlagen haben”. Produktivität und Profit in einem Moskauer Joint Venture

Müller, Birgit; Mechtcherkina, Elena; Levinson, Kirill; … - HAL - 1996

Während sich Moskau im Herbst 1993 unter und Ober der Erde in einen Straßenmarkt verwandelt hatte, waren die Strategien und Perspektiven der russischen Betriebe von der Zerschlagung von Staatsmonopolen, Privatisierungen und Joint Ventures geprägt. Mit welchen Vorstellungen die Beschäftigten...

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Value of invention, prolific inventor productivity and mobility: evidence from five countries, 1975-2002

Latham, William; Bas, Christian Le; Volodin, Dmitry - HAL - 2011

threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

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Firm Productivity and Investment Climate in Developing Countries: How Does Middle East and North Africa Manufacturing Perform?

Plane, Patrick; Veganzones, Marie-Ange; Kinda, Tidiane - HAL - 2011

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

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Firm Productivity and Investment Climate in Developing Countries: How Does Middle East and North Africa Manufacturing Perform?

Plane, Patrick; Veganzones, Marie-Ange; Kinda, Tidiane - HAL - 2011

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278338

Production factor returns : the role of factor utilisation

Cette, Gilbert; Dromel, Nicolas L.; Lecat, Rémy; … - HAL - 2011

Short-term increasing returns to production factors are usually found in empirical studies. We argue they can be due to omitted variables, particularly the intensity of factor utilisation. Thanks to original French firm-level data (1992-2008), we show how increasing returns to scale disappear...

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A Quantitative Evaluation of Payroll Tax Subsidies For Low-Wage Workers: An Equilibrium Search Approach

Chéron, Arnaud; Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François - HAL - 2008

of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …

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