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World War I and the Restructuring of International Business

Fertik, Ted - 2020

This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second-Industrial-Revolution industries like steel, electricity, and chemicals. For firms in the nations of the Entente, we argue, the war mainly interrupted long-term trends that resumed in the aftermath of the...

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Implications for Energy Innovation from the chemical industry

Arora, Ashish - 2010

The history of innovation in the chemical industry offers many insights for accelerating energy innovation. In this chapter, we begin by laying out the early history of the chemical industry for an overview of the role innovation has played in its development. We then explore three noteworthy...

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Financial dependence, banking sector competition, and economic growth

Claessens, Stijn - 2005

"The relationships among competition in the financial sector, access of firms to external financing, and associated … economic growth are ambiguous in theory. Moreover, measuring competition in the financial sector can be complex. In this paper … Claessens and Laeven first estimate for 16 countries a measure of banking system competition based on industrial organization …

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What drives bank competition? : some international evidence

Claessens, Stijn - 2003

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A framework for the design and implementation of competition law and policy

Khemani, R. S. (contributor) - 1999

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Is the U.S. Losing Its Preeminence in Higher Education?

Adams, James D. - 2009

The expansion of U.S. universities after World War II gained from the arrival of immigrant scientists and graduate students, the broadening of access to universities, and the development of military research and high technology industry. Since the 1980s, however, growth of scientific research in...

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Lobbying Competition Over Trade Policy

Gawande, Kishore - 2005

Competition between opposing lobbies is an important factor in the endogenous determination of trade policy. This paper … investigates empirically the consequences of lobbying competition between upstream and downstream producers for trade policy. The … with lobbying competition. Importantly, accounting for lobbying competition also alters substantially estimates of the …

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The Economics of Religion, Jewish Survival and Jewish Attitudes Toward Competition in Torah Education

Carlton, Dennis W. - 2000

This paper examines the attitude of Jewish law to competition in light of the economist's understanding of the benefits … of competition and of the beneficiaries from intervention in the competitive process. The punchline of this paper is … simple. Although Judaism has used a whole host of restrictions on competition and has had its share of legislation to promote …

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Internal Capital Markets and the Competition for Corporate Resources

Stein, Jeremy C. - 1995

This paper examines the role of corporate headquarters in allocating scarce resources to competing projects in an internal capital market. Unlike a bank lender, headquarters has control rights that give it both the authority and the incentive to engage in 'winner-picking' -- the practice of...

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Coping with Shocks and Shifts : The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2011

This paper provides a historical look at how the multilateral trading system has coped with the challenge of shocks and shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and political conflicts. By shifts we mean slow-moving,...

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