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Do multinationals transplant their business model?

Marin, Dalia; Rousová, Linda; Verdier, Thierry - 2019

What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...

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Managers as knowledge carriers : explaining Firms' internationalization success with manager mobility

Meinen, Philipp; Parrotta, Pierpaolo; Sala, Davide; … - 2018

How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable importance in the international economic literature. Answering it will be key for comprehending the way firms’ varying performance on international markets is shaped by the human...

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

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EU enlargement, migration and the new constitution

Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2004

The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved, it does so only if it meets with flexible labour...

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The effect of temporary migration experience on occupational mobility in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - 2013

The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees ́earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...

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Can and should the EU's Eastern Partnership be saved?

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2014

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

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When arm's length is too far : relationship banking over the business cycle

Beck, Thorsten; Degryse, Hans; Haas, Ralph de; Horen, … - 2014

Using a novel way to identify relationship and transaction banks, we study how banks' lending techniques affect funding to SMEs over the business cycle. For 21 countries we link the lending techniques that banks use in the direct vicinity of firms to these firms' credit constraints at two...

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Inside post-socialist courts : the determinants of adjudicatory outcomes in Slovenian commercial disputes

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Zajc, Katarina - 2014

Despite the judiciary's central role in the capitalist market system, micro-level empirical analyses of courts in post-socialist countries are remarkably rare. This paper draws on a unique hand-collected dataset of commercial claims filed at Slovenian courts to examine the determinants of two...

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Courts in a transition economy : case disposition and the quantity-quality tradeoff in Bulgaria

Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Slavov, Atanas - 2015

The lack of effective judiciary in post-socialist countries has been a pervasive concern and successful judicial reform an elusive goal. Yet to date, little empirical research exists on the functioning of courts in the post-socialist world. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

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