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Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew Edwin - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the …
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Antidumping and Market Competition : Implications for Emerging Economies
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
major tool in the trade policy arsenal. The paper examines these concerns in light of important ways in which the world …
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How Bank Competition Affects Firms'Access to Finance
Love, Inessa - 2017
of bank competition on firms' access to finance. They find that low competition, as measured by high values of the Lerner … firms' access to finance. In addition, they find that the impact of competition on access to finance depends on the … information, can mitigate the damaging impact of low competition. But other characteristics, such as high government bank …
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Is the Financial Safety Net a Barrier to Cross-Border Banking?
Demirgüç-Kunt, Asli - 2017
A bank's interest expenses rise with its degree of internationalization, measured by its share of foreign liabilities in total liabilities or a Herfindahl index of international liability concentration, especially if the bank is performing badly. The results in this paper suggest that an...
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Integrating Services in the Economic Fitness Approach
Zaccaria, Andrea - 2018
methodology to include a trade in services element to yield a universal matrix of world trade and thus provide a more complete …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912344
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Environmental Performance Rating and Disclosure : An Empirical Investigation of China's Green Watch Program
Jin, Yanhong - 2017
Environmental performance rating and disclosure has emerged as an alternative or complementary approach to conventional pollution regulation, especially in developing countries. However, little systematic research has been conducted on the effectiveness of this emerging policy instrument. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976374
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The Impact of Environmental Performance Rating and Disclosure : An Empirical Analysis of Perceptions by Polluting Firms'Managers in China
Jin, Yanhong - 2017
Environmental performance rating and disclosure has emerged as a substitute or complement for traditional pollution regulation, especially in developing countries. Using data from China's Green Watch program, this study extends previous research on performance rating and disclosure by...
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Firms' Environmental Performance : Does News Matter?
Mamingi, Nlandu - 2016
The empirical literature on environmental performance or compliance has followed two strands: one based on the impact of formal regulation as a means of inducing better environmental performance, and another centered on the role of informal regulation which mainly emphasizes the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748043
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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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On the Predictability of Growth
Cristelli, Matthieu Claudio Ascagne - 2017
A country's productive structure and competitiveness are harbingers of growth. Growth is a dynamic process based on capabilities that are difficult to define and measure across countries. This paper uses a global measure of fitness (or complexity-weighted diversity of production) as a method to...
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