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Making Do with What You Have: Conflict, Firm Performance and Input Misallocation in Palestine
Amodio, Francesco; Maio, Michele Di - Households in Conflict Network - 2014
This paper investigates the effect of conflict on firms' output value and input misallocation in the context of … Palestine during the Second Intifada. Using a unique establishment-level dataset, we compare firms' outcomes and input usage … over time across districts experiencing differential changes in conflict intensity. We show how conflict diminishes the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884913
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Business under Fire: Entrepreneurship and Violent Conflict in Developing Countries
Brück, Tilman T.; Naudé, Wim W.; Verwimp, Philip - Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, … - 2013
In this article, we provide an introduction to the Special Issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution devoted to the … impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries. First we note that there is insufficient attention in … the literature on the impact of violent conflict on the firm or entrepreneur level. Then, after we define entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011011587
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Business under Fire
Brück, Tilman; Naudé, Wim; Verwimp, Philip - In: Journal of Conflict Resolution 57 (2013) 1, pp. 3-19
In this article, we provide an introduction to the Special Issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution devoted to the … impact of violent conflict on entrepreneurship in developing countries. First we note that there is insufficient attention in … the literature on the impact of violent conflict on the firm or entrepreneur level. Then, after we define entrepreneurship …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011136264
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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings
Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings …. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822079
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The labor market costs of conflict: closures, foreign workers, and Palestinian employment and earnings
Miaari, Sami; Sauer, Robert - In: Review of Economics of the Household 9 (2011) 1, pp. 129-148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008926069
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Input-Trade Liberalization, Export Prices and Quality Upgrading
Bas, Maria; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2013
This paper explores the impact of input-trade liberalization on imported input and exported product prices. Using Chinese transaction data for 2000-2006, we capture causal effects between exogenous input tarif reductions and within firm changes in HS6 traded product prices. Identifcation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937198
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Input-Trade Liberalization, Export Prices and Quality Upgrading
Bas, Maria; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - Department of Economics, Sciences économiques - 2013
This paper explores the impact of input-trade liberalization on imported input and exported product prices. Using Chinese transaction data for 2000-2006, we capture causal effects between exogenous input tarif reductions and within firm changes in HS6 traded product prices. Identifcation is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010937200
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Sectoral asymmetries in a small open economy
Tiryaki, S. Tolga - In: Economic Modelling 43 (2014) C, pp. 465-475
This paper explores the sectoral dimension of emerging market business cycles by building a two-sector small open economy real business cycle model featuring a working capital requirement, variable capital utilization and imported inputs in production. The primary finding is that the price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010939707
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Sectoral Asymmetries in a Small Open Economy
Tiryaki, S. Tolga - Türkiye Cumhuriyet Merkez Bankası - 2014
This paper explores the sectoral dimension of emerging market business cycles by building a two-sector small open economy real business cycle model featuring a working capital requirement, variable capital utilization and imported inputs in production. The primary finding is that the price of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941453
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Algeria; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
This Selected Issues paper for Algeria analyzes the potential economic impact of Algeria’s Association Agreement with the European Union (AAEU). The paper lays out the major elements of Algeria’s AAEU and makes a comparison with other AAEUs. It discusses the potential economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011244528