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Entrepreneurial innovations and taxation
Haufler, Andreas; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - 2011
provisions. This points to a basic trade-off between the goals of raising competition in technology-intensive markets and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009130215
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Asset level heterogeneity, competition and export incentives : the role of credit rationing
Marjit, Sugata; Ray, Moushakhi - 2020
through asset building. The theoretical and empirical results indicate that an increase in the initial level of competition … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity … of capital accumulation and the initial level of wealth. Greater local competition before the entry of firms in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199980
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Making (small) firms happy : the heterogeneous effect of trade facilitation measures
Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2016
This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475032
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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries … with respect to their initial cost distribution. This bias fosters future competition and reduces intertemporal expected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009630098
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Advantageous smallness in contests
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2021
A standard result in contests is that a higher-ability player has a higher probability of winning the prize than a lower-ability player. Put differently, a stronger player has an advantage over a weaker player in a contest. There are very few exceptions to this standard result. I consider a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669006
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China's gains from WTO accession : imports versus exports
Lai, Ting-Wei; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2015
We examine the gains from Chinese accession to the WTO. Using Arkolakis, Costinot, and Rodríguez-Clare (2012) we provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then evaluate how the increased openness caused by China's...
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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021
How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to disentangle various mechanisms such as the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs as well as productivity shifts arising from migration-induced knowledge...
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Evaluating the impact of export finance support on firm-level export performance : evidence from Pakistan
Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro; Varela, Gonzalo - 2020
This paper evaluates the impact of two export finance support schemes: The Export Finance Scheme (EFS) and the Long-Term Finance Facility for Plant & Machinery (LTFF) on firm-level export performance. These policies offer loans to exporters at concessionary interest rates to finance short-term...
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Are trade preferences a panacea? : the African growth and opportunity act and African exports
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Maemir, Hibret; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2019
grew sharply in the first AGOA years, they leveled off after 2005, when the MFA end unleashed competition from Asian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024617
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Public policy for venture capital
Keuschnigg, Christian; Nielsen, Søren Bo - 2001
This paper proposes a simple partial equilibrium model to investigate the effects of government policy on venture capital backed investments. Giving up an alternative career, entrepreneurs focus their effort on a single, high risk venture each. Venture capitalists acquire an equity stake and...
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