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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate intoworsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization.We examine the actual scope for preference erosion,...
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Social (in)stability, distributive conflicts, and investment in poor and rich economies
Riedl, Arno - 1999 - This version: September, 1999
A recently much debated issue is why observed investment and growth rates inpoor countries are lower than traditional … investment rates is notmonotonic but follows a hump-shaped pattern. The empirical evidence shows thatalthough very poor economies … have very low investment rates there are'intermediately' developed economies that exhibit extremely high investmentrates …
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The pollution effects of mergers and acquisitions : asymmetry, disaggregation, and multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011
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The political economy of financial systems
Haber, Stephen H.; Perotti, Enrico C. - 2008
This survey reviews the literature on the political economy of financial structure, broadly defined to include the size of capital markets and banking systems as well as the distribution of access to external finance across firms.The theoretical literature on the institutional basis for...
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Cultural and institutional determinants of bilateral trade flows
Linders, Gert-Jan M.; Slangen, Arjen; Groot, Henri L. F. de - 2005
This paper studies the intangible costs of international trade by extending the basic gravity equation with measures of cultural and institutional distance, and institutional quality. Analyzing a sample of bilateral trade flows between 92 countries in 1999, we find that institutional distance...
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The pollution effects of mergers and acquisitions : asymmetry, disaggregation, and multilateralism
Swart, Julia; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011
This paper studies the impact of cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) on Carbon Dioxide emissions. Carbon Dioxide is the main anthropogenic greenhouse gas. A global problem that requires a multilateral solution. To take this into account we introduce an institutional variable, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386451
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The impact of uncertainty on investment : a meta-analysis
Koetse, Mark J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond … - 2006
In this paper we perform a meta-analysis on empirical estimates of the impact between investment and uncertainty. Since … investment research. For example, not including factor prices in investment models may seriously affect the model outco! mes … can explain to a large extent why empirical estimates of the investment-uncertainty relationship differ. …
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Estimating saving-investment correlations evidence for OECD countries based on an error correction model
Jansen, Willem J. - 1994
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Are entrepreneurs' forecasts of economic indicators biased? : A case study of predicted and realized investments in the Netherlands
Gorter, Cees (contributor) - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000972453
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The impact of uncertainty on investment : a meta-analysis
Koetse, Marc J.; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Florax, Raymond … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003354593