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International Trade and Local Outsourcing

Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei; Xu, Xinpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

outsourcing due to the capital cost effect and the scale effect. We also unveil one source of productivity and formalize a link … the scale effect move against each other. Accordingly, the impacts of international trade on local outsourcing in export … intermediate goods encourages fragmentation and local outsourcing. …

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Trade and Sectoral Productivity

Fadinger, Harald; Fleiss, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Even though differences in sectoral total factor productivity are at the heart of Ricardian trade theory and many models of growth and development, very little is known about their size and their form. In this paper we try to fill this gap by using a Hybrid-Ricardo-Heckscher-Ohlin trade model...

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I panni di lana: Nascita, espansione e declino dell’industria tessile di lana italiana, 1100-1730

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca. 1730) in the context of both international competition and economic conjoncture, in the...

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Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach

Schmitz, Patrick W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We reconsider the property rights approach to the theory of the firm based on incomplete contracts. We explore the implications of different degrees of relationship-specificity when there are two parties, A and B, who can make investments in physical capital (instead of human capital). If...

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Trafficking in drugs and economic theory

Pandey, S.S.D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

The focus of this study is on black markets which provide an important segment of the parallel economy. These markets operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore both theoretically and empirically. The problem,...

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Productivity Differences in an Interdependent World

Fadinger, Harald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper studies cross country differences in productivity from an open economy perspective by using a Helpman-Krugman-Heckscher-Ohlin model. This allows to combine tools from development accounting and the trade literature. When simultaneously fitting data on income, factor prices and the...

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A Short History of the Global Economy Since 1800

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper presents a schematic history of the global economy since 1800. The economic and political logic of global capitalism in this period is defined by its ability to derive a growing share of its energy from fossil fuels. The explosive growth of this period, the dominance of capital, the...

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Do Trust-Based Relations Improve Firm’s Performance? Evidence from Transition Economies

Berulava, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of trust-based relations on firm’s performance in transition economies. The trade credit variable is used as a proxy of trust-based relations and the propensity score matching method is employed to establish casual link between relational...

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Governing Agrarian Risks

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Risks management studies in the agri-food sector predominately focus on the technical methods and the capability to perceive, prevent, mitigate, and recover from diverse risks. In most economic publications the risks are usually studied as other commodity regulated by the market supply and...

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Governing of Agro-Ecosystem Services

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

In this paper we incorporate interdisciplinary New Institutional and Transaction Costs Economics (combining Economics, Organization, Law, Sociology, Behavioral and Political Sciences), and suggest a framework for analysis of mechanisms of governance of agro-ecosystem services. Firstly, we...

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