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The emergence of large shareholders in mass privatized firms : evidence from Poland and the Czech Republic
Grosfeld, Irena; Hoshi, Iraj - 2004
Mass privatization offers a particularly suitable framework to study the change in ownership concentration as the extent of change is unusual for a stable market economy. Focusing on two different mass privatization schemes in two transition economies, Poland and the Czech Republic, we find that...
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Why don’t all exporters benefit from free trade agreements? : estimating utilization costs
Ulloa, Alfie; Wagner, Rodrigo - 2012
latterincrease exports and may push up factor prices for the industry. …
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Does network matter in international expansion? : evidence from Italian SMEs
Gurrieri, Antonia Rosa; Petruzzellis, Luca - 2008
In order to face the new competitive scenario, Apulian textile firms are involved in a process of change and are trying to adopt a networking approach in analysing the international propensity of SMEs. The case of the textile network in Apulia has been analysed using a semi-structured...
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Brown sunsets and green dawns in the industrial sector : environmental innovations, firm behavior and the European emission trading
Borghesi, Simone; Cainelli, Giulio; Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2012
We study the driving forces behind the adoption of environmental innovations (EI) in the Italian industry over 2006-2008 through analyses of the new wave of Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data that covered for the first time environmental innovation adoptions. We investigate whether the first...
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The effects of management practices on effective tax rates : evidence from Ecuador
Beverinotti, Javier; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Deza, … - 2021
This paper examines the effects of management practices on effective tax rates (ETR) in a sample of medium and large manufacturing firms in Ecuador. We use a novel data set on management practice scores matched with administrative tax data from the Superintendence of Companies and the Internal...
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Asistencias técnicas y competitividad de las MiPyMEs : evidencia para Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, … - 2016
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Upgrading in the Indian automobile sector : the role of lead firms
Ray, Saon; Miglani, Smita - 2018
This paper has made an attempt to identify the role of lead firms in mapping the activities related to upgrading. Upgrading refers to the process through which firms may move up the value chain. The literature identifies different types of upgrading such as product, process, functional and...
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Who learns more from Afar? : spatial empirical evidence on manufacturing and services
Vujanović, Nina - 2023
This paper investigates spatial dependence of FDI knowledge spillovers in manufacturing and services using spatial panel techniques applied to the 2006-2014 Bureau Van Dijk's Amadeus firm-level dataset for Croatia and Slovenia. The paper finds diverse results across the two sectors. The distance...
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The Chinese export bundles : patterns, puzzles and possible explanations
Wang, Zhi (contributor); Wei, Shang-jin (contributor) - 2008
China’s exports have become increasingly sophisticated. This has generated anxiety in developed countries as the … competitive pressure may be increasingly felt outside labor-intensive industries. Using product-level data on exports from … significantly to raising the unit values of China’s exports within a given product category. -- China ; India ; Export …
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Japan's foreign direct investment experiences in India : lessons learnt from firm level surveys
Choudhury, Srabani Roy - 2009
Ever since India decided to globalize, concentrated effort was made to attract Japanese participation through foreign direct investment. However, response from Japan has been rather subdued. This paper attempts to gain some insight into this reluctance of Japanese investors by studying the...
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