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Impact of European Food Safety Border Inspections on Agri-Food Exports : Evidence from Chinese Firms

Beestermöller, Matthias - 2016

The cost of complying with a sanitary standard is certain. However, such regulatory measure is a source of uncertainty for exporting firms in relation to border rejections. Shipments may fail to pass inspections and may be refused entry into the importing country. We examine how the risk of...

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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach

Lindner, Ines - 2016

knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …

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Where is the Value Added? Trade Liberalization and Production Networks

Aichele, Rahel - 2019

-12% of the decrease in the world DVA ratio as observed between 2000-2007. For China, the counterfactual experiment robustly …

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Directed Generosity and Network Formation : Network Dimension Matters

D'Exelle, Ben - 2010

We explore network effects on generosity for different network dimensions. To this end we elicit multiple network dimensions (friendship, social support, economic exchange, etc.) in a rural village in the Southern hemisphere and measure generosity with a sequence of dictator games conducted in...

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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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Role of Production Networks in Sustaining and Rebalancing Asia's Growth

Thorbecke, Willem - 2012

, the ability of the rest of the world to absorb Asia's exports has decreased. Export production in some Asian countries has …

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The Optimal Defense of Network Connectivity

Kovenock, Dan; Roberson, Brian - 2016

Maintaining the security of critical infrastructure networks is vital for a modern economy. This paper examines a game-theoretic model of attack and defense of a network in which the defender's objective is to maintain network connectivity and the attacker's objective is to destroy a set of...

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Monetary Policy Through Production Networks : Evidence from the Stock Market

Ozdagli, Ali K. - 2017

Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...

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Contagion in Stable Networks

Bougheas, Spiros - 2017

We study the formation of networks in environments where agents derive benefits from other agents directly linked to them but suffer losses through contagion when any agent on a path connected to them is hit by a shock. We first consider networks with undirected links (e.g. epidemics,...

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Offshoring along the Production Chain

Harms, Philipp - 2009

Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...

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