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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 …
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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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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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-being responds negatively (positively) to an increase in the GDP (unemployment rate) of their home country. That is, we originally …
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neighborhood characteristics explain victimization better than individual characteristics. Second, I find that local unemployment … the precise localization of the data to adopt a spatial approach, comparing the effect of unemployment rate in the …
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determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased … market capitalization as well as decreased banking concentration reduce unemployment if the level of labour market regulation … intermediated credit worsens unemployment when the labour market is weakly regulated and coordinated, whereas it reduces …
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This paper presents a model allowing to analyze voting, welfare institutions and economic performance. We consider a political economy framework with three classes of agents: entrepreneurs, employed workers and unemployed workers. Agents vote on alternative institutional options: the degree of...
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with a small one. Surprisingly, the end of transition is also characterized by lower unemployment when there are massive … layoffs - because in the short run, the high unemployment implied by the massive decrease makes job creation in the …
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This article aims to establish a link between the unemployment duration and the inter vivos transfers received by the … on the receiver's unemployment duration. Ultimately, a recursion arises and leads to a simulteanous determination of the … transfer and the duration. The model aims to apprehend the job search behaviour in a context where the unemployment …
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can facilitate access to the labor market for younger people and help lower global unemployment. But many questions remain … relationship between labor force participation of the old and unemployment of the young in France since the beginning of the 1970s … unemployment rate. Even controlling for the economic cycle, this positive association remains - albeit less robustly. These …
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