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Trade in services : How does it work ?
Rabaud, Isabelle - HAL - 2006
While services represent nearly 70 % of value added in all OECD countries, only a fifth of trade in goods and services is due to cross-border supply of services. Then internationalisation of services occurs by commercial presence of firms in host countries, its impact on white collar employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794743
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The Discriminatory Effect of Domestic Regulations on International Trade in Services: Evidence from Firm-Level Data
Crozet, Matthieu; Milet, Emmanuel; Mirza, Daniel - HAL - 2013
services. They reduce both the decision to export and the individual exports. These results tend to prove that domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011025967
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Urbanisation and changes in the sectoral structure of economic development: the scale of the manufacturing sector in Chinese cities and the shift towards service industry
Daniels, Peter; Ni, Pengfei - HAL - 2014
There are many dimensions to the evolving economic development model in China and the role for urbanization within it. One key component is a requirement to incorporate a wider range of service industries, especially in the nation's fast-growing cities where there is demand for knowledge and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899950
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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
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 …
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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Agriculture and trade liberalization in Vietnam
Coello, Barbara - HAL - 2007
effects of trade liberalization proportionally to the degree of initial household specialization in export crops. My findings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643225
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How Wages and Employment Adjust to Trade Liberalization: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Austria
Brülhart, Marius; Carrere, Céline; Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2011
We study the responses of regional employment and nominal wages to trade liberalization, exploiting the natural experiment provided by the opening of Central and Eastern European markets after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1990. Using data for Austrian municipalities, we examine differential...
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Trade liberalization and poverty dynamics in Vietnam 2002-2006
Coello, Barbara; Fall, Madior; Suwa-Eisenmann, Akiko - HAL - 2010
poor, besides the expected positive impact of working in an export-related sector (in industry and in agriculture …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738765
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Trade liberalization and heterogeneous within-firm productivity improvements
Bas, Maria; Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2008
evolution of within firm productivity. The main contribution is to incorporate endogenous labor productivity gains … introduce two novel results. First, aggregate productivity increases due to within-firm productivity improvements. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738914