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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...

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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 …

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Emerging sacred values: The Iranian nuclear program.

Dehghani, Morteza; Iliev, Rumen; Atran, Scott; Ginges, … - HAL - 2009

Sacred values are different from secular values in that they are often associated with violations of the cost-benefit logic of rational choice models. Previous work on sacred values has been largely limited to religious or territorial conflicts deeply embedded in historical contexts. In this...

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The Re-Building Effect of Hurricanes: Evidence from Employment in the US Construction Industry

Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - HAL - 2009

We examine the impact of hurricane strikes on the construction industry in US counties. To this end we use a measure of hurricane destruction derived from a wind field model and historical hurricane track data and employ this within a dynamic labour demand framework. Our results show that...

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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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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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“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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