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towards the powers that be; thus corruption is a method of governance. We trace the systemic corruption back to the Mongolian …
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This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
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This paper investigates the factors (such as different sources of financing, energy audits and internal monitoring … performance index (EPI) and on the level of economic development in turn. The results indicate that internal financing always has … a positive effect on a firm's propensity to adopt EEMs. Private external sources of financing appear to be more …
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This paper investigates how access to finance and skilled workforce endowments affect the propensity of European small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt different types of resource efficiency measures (REMs), possibly simultaneously. For this purpose, a Multinomial Logit model is...
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We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and banking trouble in the late 1980s and early 1990s serve as a quasi natural experiment to identify two possible transmission channels from financial...
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In the nineties, average firm size decreased, organisations decentralized, and workers preferences shifted from large to small firms. Our model identifies the economic forces behind this trend. Small firms with little capital at risk are subject to risk-shifting. They realize more of their...
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In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the … factors in which institutions affect market integration more than market integration affects institutions. It was …
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This paper examines the effect of trade integration and comparative advantage on one of a country’s institutions, which …
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regions rich in marine resources differ from societies with a purely agrarian legacy in terms of institutions, cultural values …
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The number of firm bankruptcies is surprisingly low in economies with poor institutions. We study a model of bank …. We show that institutions must improve significantly in order to yield a stable equilibrium in which the optimal number … of firms is liquidated. There is also a range where improving institutions may decrease the number of bad firms …
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