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The many channels of firm's adjustment to energy shocks : evidence from France
Fontagné, Lionel; Martin, Philippe J.; Orefice, Gianluca - 2023
pass-through the cost shock fully on their export prices. Their production, exports and employment fall. A consequence of …
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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020
We study how firms respond to import competition by increasing the speed of trade. We use data on all Portuguese textile and clothing exporters' monthly transactions and exploit the exogenous increase in competition following the removal of Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas on Chinese...
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Ethnic identity and the employment outcomes of immigrants : evidence from France
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …
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Competition and trust : evidence from German car manufacturers
Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; Stahl, Konrad - 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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Competition and innovation in automobile markets
Ghosal, Vivek; Ni, Jiayao - 2015
Using data from the US automobile market, we empirically examine the link between competition and innovation. Consistent with a large literature, we use patent counts as a measure of innovation. The combination of the US market's economic importance, market dynamics, and the significant...
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Trust, competition and innovation : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2015
We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers' investment and buyers' procurement strategies. We address these issues empirically...
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Trust, investment and competition : theory and evidence from German car manufacturers
Calzolari, Giacomo; Felli, Leonardo; Koenen, Johannes; … - 2019
Based on data from a comprehensive benchmarking study on buyer-supplier relationships in the German automotive industry, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part quality - but also with more competition among...
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The surprising French employment performance : what lessons?
Pisani-Ferry, Jean - 2003
Although widely regarded as a textbook case of a rigid economy, in the late 1990s France was able to increase … employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what …
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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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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