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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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Equal before luck? : well-being consequences of personal deprivation and transition

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Rosello-Roig, Melcior - 2025

Past trauma resulting from personal life shocks, especially during periods of particular volatility such as regime transition (or regime change), can give rise to significant long-lasting effects on people's health and well-being. We study this question by drawing on longitudinal and...

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Corporate survival in emerging European markets : impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war

Kočenda, Evžen; Iwasaki, Ichirō - 2025

We investigate the determinants of firm survival in 17 emerging European markets during the dual crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war. Using a large dataset of over 59,000 firms and employing a Cox proportional hazards model, the study evaluates how firm-specific...

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The effects on inequality and mobility of exposure to Soviet Communism in Eastern Europe

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicińska, Anna; Roig, Melcior Rossello - 2025 - This Version: June 2025

We compare inequality and social mobility trends in Eastern European countries exposed to Soviet Communist (SC) regimes with those not exposed, using similar welfare measures. We draw upon a rich retrospective dataset that collects relevant welfare measures across regimes including information...

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On optimal currency areas and common cycles : are the acceding countries ready to join the euro?

Grimm, Louisa; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2021

The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...

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Distressed acquisitions : evidence from European emerging markets

Iwasaki, Ichirō; Kočenda, Evžen; Shida, Yoshisada - 2021

We analyze factors behind 23,213 distressed acquisitions in European emerging markets from 2007–2019. Besides the impact of financial ratios, legal form, ownership structure, firm size, and age, we emphasize the role of institutions and channels of their propagation. We show that the quality...

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Does democracy make taller men? : cross-country European evidence

Batinti, Alberto; Costa-Font, Joan - 2021 - This version: January 2022

We study whether a democracy improves a measure of individual wellbeing; human heights. Drawing on individual-level datasets, we test the hypothesis using a battery of eight different measures of democracy and derived averages, and include models accounting for several confounders, regional and...

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Revealed in transition : the political effect of planning's legacy

Natchov, Timur V.; Pyle, William - 2022

Decades of investment decisions by central planners left communist societies with structures of production ill-prepared for competitive markets. Their vulnerability to liberalization, however, varied across space. Similar to the effects identified in the "China shock" literature, we hypothesize...

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