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Differentiated management of GM diffusion in China: Further hampering the self-sufficiency in cereal production?
Fok, Michel; Liang, Weili; Wang, Guiyan; Wu, Yuhong - HAL - 2004
China is a big country in terms of biotech achievements. It is also a rare country demonstrating crop …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793327
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Taux de change réel et productivité en Chine
Jeanneney, Sylviane Guillaumont; Hua, Ping - HAL - 2011
This article investigates the impact that the appreciation and the stability of the real exchange rate in China between … 1993 and 2001 have exerted on productivity growth. We give theoretical arguments explaining the impact of the real exchange … rate on productivity via its effects either on efficiency growth or on technical progress. Then for the twenty-nine Chinese …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805933
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Firm heterogeneity, Rules of Origin and Rules of Cumulation
Bombarda, Pamela; Gamberoni, Elisa - HAL - 2013
This paper sheds light on the restrictive nature of rules of origin (ROO) and on the role of diagonal cumulation in mitigating the protectionist content of ROO. Empirical evidence suggests that diagonal cumulation has beneficial effects on trade - particularly among spoke countries. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898816
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Does China's Trade Expansion Help African Development? - A South-South Trade Model Approach
He, Yong - HAL - 2011
With the aim to explain the explosive growth of trade between China and Africa, especially the impacts of China …. Then the Comtrade panel data are used to assess the impacts of imports from China (in comparison with those from the USA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793509
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Estimating import price elasticity while controlling for quality
Thanagopal, Thannaletchimy - HAL - 2011
Import price elasticity tends to be under-estimated due to the omission of quality effects. This dissertation aims to fill this gap by analyzing 1) how quality effects affect the estimation of import price elasticity, 2) the impact of quality innovation in the various goods sectors of an economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372658
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The organization of extended producer responsibility in waste policy with product differentiation
Fleckinger, Pierre; Glachant, Matthieu - HAL - 2010
The paper analyzes the efficiency of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for waste management. We consider a vertically differentiated duopoly where endogenous market quality affects waste disposal costs. Each producer has to meet a take-back requirement that forces it to collect and treat...
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Trade performances, product quality perceptions and the estimation of trade price-elasticities
Crozet, Matthieu; Erkel-Rousse, Hélène - HAL - 2004
Traditional trade models ignoring the dimension of product quality generally lead to excessively low trade price elasticities. In this paper, we show that higher estimated trade price elasticities, more in conformity with theory, can be obtained by controlling product quality in trade equations....
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Consumer confusion over the profusion of eco-labels: lessons from a double differentiation model.
Brécard, Dorothée - HAL - 2012
How are eco-label strategies affected by consumer confusion arising from the profusion of eco-labels? This article provides a theoretical insight into this issue using a double differentiation framework. We assume that consumers perceive a label as a sign of quality compared to an unlabeled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899780
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Innovation on the seed market : the role of IPRs and commercialisation rules
Hervouet, Adrien; Baudry, Marc - HAL - 2014
This article deals with the impact of legislation in the seed sector on incentives for variety creation. The first category of rules consists in intellectual property rights and is intended to address a problem of sequential innovation and R&D investments. The second category concerns commercial...
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Insider Trading With Product Differentiation
Daher, Wassim; Aydilek, Harun; Karam, Fida; Aydilek, Asiye - HAL - 2012
In this paper, we analyze the effect of Cournot competition with differentiated products on the real and financial decisions of a publicly-owned firm, with three different structures in the financial market : monopoly, duopoly and Stackelberg. We shows that the degree of product differentiation...
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