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A Triptych Inquiry: Rethinking Sustainability, Innovation, and Financial Performance

Busch, Timo; Stinchfield, Bryan T.; Wood, Matthew S. - 2011

Management scholars have sought to answer the question: is there a financial payoff for ad-dressing ecological and social issues? We move beyond this question and include a time com-ponent for corporate financial performance (CFP) and a firm’s innovativeness in order to ask: when does it pay?...

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The Trade and FDI Effects of EMU Enlargement

Brouwer, Jelle; Paap, Richard; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2007

This paper considers the nature and the distribution of trade and FDI effects of a potential enlargement of the European Monetary Union (EMU) to the 10 countries that obtained EU membership in 2004. One-way and two-way error component gravity models are estimated using a data set of unbalanced...

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Trade between China and the Netherlands: a Case Study of Globalization

den Butter, Frank A.G.; Hayat, Raphie - 2008

During the last decades, the growth of trade between China and the Netherlands has been larger than the increase in … bilateral trade flows between China and most other countries. Using a time series based gravity model, this paper investigates …-house offshoring to China is a major determinant of Dutch import growth from China. Dutch firms tend to offshore production in …

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Agglomeration, Innovation and Regional Development: Theoretical Perspectives and Meta-Analysis

de Groot, Henri L.F.; Poot, Jacques; Smit, Martijn J. - 2007

Innovation and technological change are central to the quest for regional development. In the globally-connected knowledge-driven economy, the relevance of agglomeration forces that rely on proximity continues to increase, paradoxically despite declining real costs of information, communication...

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Agglomeration Externalities and Localized Employment Growth

de Vor, Friso; de Groot, Henri L.F. - 2008

This paper addresses the question to what extent the performance of industrial sites is affected by their local economic structure and accessibility. For this aim, we test for the existence of statistically significant relationships between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity,...

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Cognitive Capital and Islands of Innovation: The Lucas Growth Model from a Regional Perspective

Caragliu, Andrea; Nijkamp, Peter - 2011

Knowledge triggers regional growth. Evidence suggests that skilled labour force concentrates in islands of innovation, determining an advantage for innovative regions and a challenge for lagging ones. We address the role of knowledge in shaping effective markets for skilled labour. Estimates are...

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How important are Institutions for Growth in Transition Countries?

Moers, Luc - 1999

Growth empirics with institutional measures is performed for 25 transition countries overthe period 1990-95. Estimation results suggest that (particularly state) institutions aresignificant for growth and, especially, foreign direct investment (FDI), the latter in turnbeing important for the...

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Explaining the Variation in Empirical Estimates of Tax Elasticities of Foreign Direct Investment

de Mooij, Ruud A.; Ederveen, Sjef - 2005

This study aims to explain the variation in empirical estimates in the literature on the elasticity of foreign direct investment with respect to company tax levels. To that end, we extend the meta analysis of De Mooij and Ederveen (2003) by considering an alternative classification of the...

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Antitrust in Open Economies

Francois, Joseph; Horn, Henrik - 2006

We examine antitrust rules in a two county general equilibrium trade model, contrasting national and multilateral (cooperative) determination of competition policy, exploring the properties of the policy equilibrium. It is not imperfect competition, but variation in competitive stance between...

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Productivity Gains from Offshoring: an Empirical Analysis for the Netherlands

den Butter, Frank A.G.; Pattipeilohy, Christiaan - 2007

A major question in the globalization debate is whether outsourcing and offshoring activities are beneficial to the home country. This paper investigates the effects on productivity and trade from the perspective of transaction costs, using a recent theory on trade in tasks. A production...

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