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Transboundary Pollution in China: A Study of Polluting Firms' Location Choices in Hebei Province
Duvivier, Chloe; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2011
disproportionately suffer from pollution. In China, where the environmental policy is decentralized and where environmental conflicts … studies focused on developed countries. In this paper, we study whether transboundary pollution problems exist in China. To do …
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China's new energy vehicles: value and innovation
Kimble, Chris; Wang, Hua - HAL - 2013
, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …
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À la recherche de l'avantage concurrentiel associatif : l'intérêt pour une association du secteur sanitaire, social et médico-social de définir sa différence
Linz, Blanca - HAL - 2013
Peut-on déterminer l'avantage concurrentiel d'une association par rapport à une entreprise lucrative du même secteur ? Le résultat de cette étude comparative permet de relever quelques convergences et divergences entre deux formes entrepreneuriales très différentes, autour d'une...
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Hiring and market intermediaries
Bessy, Christian; Larquier, Guillemette De - HAL - 2003
The British labour market is distinguished by a stronger presence of job placement agencies than the French market. We analyse this difference by pointing out the diverse roles played by labour market intermediaries in each country. Theoretically, we elaborate a framework in order to point out...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899262
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Functional fragmentation and the location of multinational firms in the enlarged Europe
Defever, Fabrice - HAL - 2006
Despite the recent advances in the theory of location, the analysis of the role of services surrounding production activity has been largely neglected. This paper analyzes the co-location of a multinational firm's value chain in the enlarged European Union. Depending on its particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750821
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Subsidy competition in integrating economies
Albornoz, Facundo; Corcos, Grégory - HAL - 2005
Regional integration affects location decisions of MNCs and therefore influences each member country's provision of investment incentives, which in turn may trigger relocation. As a consequence, subsidy competition increases as integration proceeds. We analyze the welfare consequences of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739043
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Polycentric city and multi-worker households: an agent-based microeconomic model
Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013
Polycentrism in cities is studied with the help of an agent-based model grounded in the Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM) framework, using microeconomic interactions between heterogeneous agents. This model is shown to reproduce the standard urban equilibrium with two income groups. Two job centers at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147734
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R&D lab location. Evidence from the French case
Autant-Bernard, Corinne - HAL - 2006
The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate how regional advantages and firms characteristics influence the location of R&D. Looking at 2024 decisions of R&D lab location in France, we implement an extended conditional logit with spatially lagged explanatory variables to evaluate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794139
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Optimising the Global Value Chain: An Analysis of the Automobile Industry
Mayrhofer, Ulrike; Colovic, Ana - HAL - 2009
This article analyses location strategies pursued by multinational corporations. The authors examine different conceptual frameworks proposed in the literature, in order to identify major determinants of location choice. The analysis focuses on production and R&D activities, which play a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010898491
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Immigrants' location choice in Belgium
Jayet, Hubert; Rayp, Glenn; Ruyssen, Ilse; Ukrayinchuk, … - HAL - 2014
This paper analyses migratory streams to Belgian municipalities between 1994-2007. The Belgian population register constitutes a rich and unique database of yearly migrant inflows and stocks broken down by nationality, which allows us to empirically explain the location choice of immigrants at...
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