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A comparison between shale gas in China and unconventional fuel development in the United States : health, water and environmental risks

Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013

China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...

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Informal finance : a theory of moneylenders

Madestam, Andreas - 2009

I study the coexistence of formal and informal finance in underdeveloped credit markets. While weak institutions constrain formal banks, shallow pockets hamper informal lenders. In such economies, informal finance has two effects. By increasing the investment return it decreases borrowers'...

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Rockets and feathers revisited : an international comparison on European gasoline markets

Galeotti, Marzio; Lanza, Alessandro; Manera, Matteo - 2002

This paper re-examines the issue of asymmetries in the transmission of shocks to crude oil prices onto the retail price of gasoline. Relative to the previous literature, the distinguishing features of the present paper are: i) use of updated and comparable data to carry out an international...

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Market power and artificial intelligence work on online labour markets

Duch-Brown, Néstor; Gomez-Herrera, Estrella; … - 2021

We investigate three alternative but complementary indicators of market power on one of the largest online labour markets (OLMs) in Europe: (1) the elasticity of labour demand, (2) the elasticity of labour supply, and (3) the concentration of market shares. We explore how these indicators relate...

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Surviving competition : neighborhood shops vs. convenience chains

Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2023

Hundreds of millions of microenterprises in emerging economies face increased competition from the entry and expansion of large firms that offer similar products. This paper studies how one of the world's most prevalent microenterprises, neighborhood shops, confront competition from convenience...

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High-tech clusters, technology spillovers, and trade secret laws

Fosfuri, Andrea; Rønde, Thomas - 2002

We analyze firms’ incentives to cluster in an industrial district to benefit from reciprocal technology spillovers. A simple model of cumulative innovation is presented where technology spillovers arise endogenously through labor mobility. It is shown that firms’ incentives to cluster are...

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National versus international mergers and trade liberalization

Yildiz, Halis Murat - 2003

. If the other country practices free trade, unilateral liberalization by a country yields international mergers whereas if … it practices a restrictive trade policy, national mergers arise. As trade gets bilaterally liberalized, the resulting … equilibrium market structure is the one with international mergers. These results fit well with the fact that global trade …

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Merge or fail? : The determinants of mergers and bankruptcies in Switzerland, 1995 - 2000

Bühler, Stefan (contributor); Kaiser, Christian (contributor) - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, using firm level data from the Swiss Business Census … differences in the determinants of mergers and bankruptcies, in particular with respect to firm size, location and the impact of … macroeconomic conditions. Our results support the notion that mergers are often undertaken to seize growth opportunities. -- merger …

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Cross-border intellectual property rights : contract enforcement and absorptive capacity

Naghavi, Alireza; Tsai, Yingyi - 2012

This paper studies cross-border intellectual property rights (IPR) as a North-South contract using a Nash bargaining … from, continue to remain on the list. -- Intellectual Property Rights ; TRIPS ; Nash Bargaining ; Contract …

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The impact of immigration on Portuguese intra-industry trade

Leitão, Nuno Carlos - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between intra-industry trade (IIT) and immigration flows using a gravity model for the period 2000-2010 between Portugal and European Union’s Member States (EU-27). The present study uses the methodology of Kandogan (2003) for separating IIT into its...

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