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Reflections on Cluster Policies
Brakman, Steven - 2012
Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...
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Modi's 'Make in India' Industrial Reform Policy and East Asian Flying-Geese Paradigm
Nam, Chang Woon - 2017
The on-going ‘Make in India' campaign aims at manufacturing revival. Its characteristics resemble East Asian industrial reform and growth policies based on the flying-geese model which highlights ‘step-by-step' changes in a country's specialisation pattern and global competitiveness...
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Subsidizing National Champions : An Evolutionary Perspective
Aubert, Cecile - 2008
early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non …
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Banking and Industrialization
Heblich, Stephan - 2015
We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in finance employment increases the annualized growth rate of secondary labour by 0.8 percentage points. An endogenous growth model with finance and...
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Strategic Technology Policy as a Supplement to Renewable Energy Standards
Fischer, Carolyn - 2016
suppliers who exercise market power. With multiple market failures (emissions externality and imperfect competition), renewable …
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Competition between State Universities
Grazzini, Lisa - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching …
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Competition and Trust : Evidence from German Car Manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo - 2011
We explore the determinants and effects of trust relationships between upstream suppliers and downstream producers. Using unique survey data on individual supplier-buyer relationships in the German automotive industry, we show, by means of different measures of supplier-buyer trust, that higher...
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Emotions in Litigation Contests
Baumann, Florian - 2011
This paper introduces the concept of emotions into the standard litigation contest. Positive (negative) emotions emerge when litigants win (lose) at trial and are dependent in particular on the level of defendant fault. Our findings establish that standard results of litigation contests change...
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A Simple Model of Health Insurance Competition
Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010
This paper investigates competition between health insurance companies under different financing regulations. We … consider two alternatives advanced in recent German health care reform discussions: competition by contribution rates (health … contributions) and by fees (health premia). We find that contribution rate competition yields lower company profits and higher …
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Bank Competition, Asset Allocations and Risk of Failure : An Empirical Investigation
Boyd, John H. - 2010
This study is an empirical investigation of theoretical predictions concerning the impact of bank competition on bank … risk and asset allocations. Recent work (Boyd, De Nicolò and Jalal, 2009, BDNJ henceforth) predicts that as competition in … of competition. We also find that as competition intensifies, borrower risk decreases and the loan-to-asset ratio …
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