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Soppelsa, Maria E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Xu, Lixin Colin - 2019

This paper explores the links between city competitiveness and air pollution and the business environment. Because competitive cities not only attract more productive firms, but also facilitate their business, the paper look at firm performance as a proxy for city competitiveness. It focuses on...

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Migration and remittances in the Former Soviet Union countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : what are the long-term macroeconomic consequences?

Brownbridge, Martin; Canagarajah, Sudharshan - 2020

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as measured by the Human Capital Index, than is typical...

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The relationship between conflicts, economic shocks, and death with depression, economic activities, and human capital investment in Nigeria

Jamison, Julian C.; McGee, Kevin Robert; Oseni, Gbemisola; … - 2018

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Enforcing competition and firm productivity : evidence from 1,800 Peruvian municipalities

Schiffbauer, Marc; Sampi, James - 2019

competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …/14 empowered the competition authority to enforce the elimination of illegal, sector-specific subnational regulatory barriers to …

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Corporate market power in Romania : assessing recent trends, drivers, and implications for competition

Iootty, Mariana; Pop, Georgiana; Pena, Jorge - 2020

the implications for competition and economic growth. The results show that the (sales-weighted) average markup in Romania … environment that is less conducive to competition. A decomposition exercise shows that the increase in aggregate markups has been … ownership. Further, the paper shows that additional productivity dividends are associated with increased competition in Romania …

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