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Contrasting Revealed Comparative Advantages when Trade is (also) in Intermediate Products
Escaith, Hubert - 2020
The paper reviews and compare a selection of existing and new alternative indicators of Revealed Comparative Advantages, with a special emphasis on trade in intermediate products. The research adopts a statistical approach for both its theoretical and its analytical facets. The formal concepts...
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Globalization's impact on compliance with labor standards
Harrison, Ann; Scorse, Jason - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
In an effort to shed some light on the larger question of labor standardsvand globalization, we seek to examine … higher wages. This framework provides a direct test of the relationship between meas ures of globalization and labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647431
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Foreign direct investment, development and the new global economic order. A policy brief for the South
Singh, Ajit; Zammit, Josephine Ann - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
Preface Over the last decade and a half the global economic order has been undergoing major changes. While this may be thought to reflect the results of a multilateral and participatory process involving debate and negotiations, in reality it has been mostly driven by the economic interests of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109162
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Competition and Market Strategies in the Swiss Fixed Telephony Market. An estimation of Swisscom’s dynamic residual demand curve.
Balmer, Roberto - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Fixed telephony has long been a fundamentally important market for European telecommunications operators. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259890
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Case Study: Does Korea Telecom’s (KT) Sustainability Achievements Follow the Ten Steps Approach?
Lee, Young-eun; Cave, Adam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Many companies have reduced greenhouse gas emissions and gone paperless, shrunk packaging and eliminated hazardous substances from their products. They also have dramatically reduced the amount of water and energy they consume and the amount of waste they produce. They have attracted highly...
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How zero price affects demand?: experimental evidence from the Moroccan telecommunication market
Driouchi, Ahmed; Chetioui, Youssef; Baddou, Meryem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
To select one of several products (or to buy nothing) is a daily decision. Its foundations vary from one person to another and are based on perceptions, preferences, and other criteria. The standard theoretical perspective conveys that people choose options with the highest net benefit. However,...
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From national monopoly to Multinational Corporation: how regulation shaped the road towards telecommunications internationalization
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Comín Comín, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
One of the consequences of major regulatory reform of the telecommunications sector from the end of the 1970s … former national telecommunications monopolies to expand internationally. From the 1990s, a number of these firms … explores how the regulatory framework within which telecommunications incumbents evolved over the long-term helped shape their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283796
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Bringing Citizens Back In: Renewing Public Service Regulation
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Fernández … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This essay concerns the ways in which public services – particularly household services such as communications, energy, water and transportation – have been regulated and deregulated, and analyses what consequences this has for users and citizens. Much of the deregulation of public services...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283800
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Explaining Telecoms and Electricity Internationalization in the European Union: A Political Economy Perspective
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel; Revuelta, Julio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
-looking incumbents in telecommunications and electricity rapidly transformed themselves into some of the world’s leading Multinationals …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283802
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Mobile telephony in the UK
Armstrong, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1997
This paper discusses aspects of recent policy towards mobile telephony in the U.K., including (i) the level of retail charges for calls from fixed to mobile networks, (ii) the level of call termination charges on mobile networks, and (iii) the level of connection subsidies offered by mobile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644936