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Electoral Violence and Supply Chain Disruptions in Kenya's Floriculture Industry
Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Violent conflicts, particularly at election times in Africa, are a common cause of instability and economic disruption. This paper studies how firms react to electoral violence using the case of Kenyan flower exporters during the 2008 post-election violence as an example. The violence induced a...
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Free to Leave? A Welfare Analysis of Divorce Regimes
Fernández, Raquel - 2014
productivity, we find that men in the top three quintiles of the initial productivity distribution are made better off by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458415
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On the Origins of Gender Roles : Women and the Plough
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2011
This paper seeks to better understand the historical origins of current differences in norms and beliefs about the appropriate role of women in society. We test the hypothesis that traditional agricultural practices influenced the historical gender division of labor and the evolution and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461559
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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production
McGrattan, Ellen R. - 2017
In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455464
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The Impact of COVID-19 on Gender Equality
Alon, Titan - 2020
The economic downturn caused by the current COVID-19 outbreak has substantial implications for gender equality, both during the downturn and the subsequent recovery. Compared to "regular" recessions, which affect men's employment more severely than women's employment, the employment drop related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481904
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The Plant-Level View of an Industrial Policy : The Korean Heavy Industry Drive of 1973
Kim, Minho; Lee, Munseob; Shin, Yongseok - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …
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Competition and Human Capital Accumulation : A Theory of Interregional Specialization and Trade
Rotemberg, Julio J. - 1990
We consider a model with several regions whose technological ability and factor endowments are identical and in which transport costs between regions are non-negligible. Nonetheless, certain goods are sometimes produced by multiple firms all of which are located in the same region. These goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012475809
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Growth Policy, Agglomeration, and (the Lack of) Competition
Brooks, Wyatt J. - 2016
Industrial clusters are promoted by policy and generally viewed as good for growth and development, but both clusters and policies may also enable non-competitive behavior. This paper studies the presence of non-competitive pricing in geographic industrial clusters. We develop, validate, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455733
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Effects of Product Availability : Experimental Evidence
Conlon, Christopher T. - 2010
Product availability impacts many industries such as transportation, events, and retail, yet little empirical evidence documents the importance of stocking decisions for firm profits, vertical relationships, or consumers. We conduct several experiments, exogenously removing top-selling products...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462151
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Regulation - the Corridor to Liberalization : The Experience of the Israeli Phone Market 1984-2005
Gronau, Reuben - 2006
20 years, analyzing its impact on consumers' welfare, the monopoly's profitability and its productivity. Though the …
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