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We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social …
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The literature on the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and activities of multinational enterprises (MNEs) on host-countries has been almost exclusively focused on issues of productivity, growth and wages. We argue that this leaves quite a bit of important unexplored areas of inquiry,...
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) increasingly impose "Responsible Sourcing" (RS) standards on their suppliers worldwide, including requirements on worker compensation, benefits and working conditions. Are these policies just "hot air" or do they impact exposed suppliers and their workers? What...
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' establishments across the world and in employee-level data on the same employers' establishments in Brazil …
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differences between this behavior and agency problems in freestanding firms. We then examine the telecoms industry in Brazil, a …
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increase under the new regime even though tariffs against these goods become more discriminatory, and exports from Brazil to … policy in the automobile sector in Argentina and Brazil during 1996-1999 …
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of increasing safety rather than production. We study the U.S. metals mining sector, leveraging exogenous demand shocks …
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The government contracts with a foreign firm to extract a natural resource that requires an upfront investment and which faces price uncertainty. In states where profits are high, there is a likelihood of expropriation, which generates a social cost that increases with the expropriated value. In...
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damage. As expected, when the environmental damage from mining is known, the socially optimal timing will depend on the … mining until better information arrives. We show conditions under which it is optimal to postpone the mining decision … marginal mine owner is completely indifferent between mining immediately and at any point in the future. Thus, for our problem …
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mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer start-ups in the middle of the 20th century. We use mines as an … cold and warm regions alike and in industries that are not directly related to mining, such as trade, finance and services …
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