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Effective Labor Regulation and Microeconomic Flexibility
Caballero, Ricardo J.; Cowan, Devin N.; Engel, Eduardo … - 2004
Microeconomic flexibility, by facilitating the process of creative-destruction, is at the core of economic growth in modern market economies. The main reason for why this process is not infinitely fast is the presence of adjustment costs, some of them technological, others institutional. Chief...
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Essays on the Theory of Productive Government Activity and Economic Growth
Kühnel, Johanna - 2010
unvollkommenen Rechtsstaat, Innovationen und Wachstum in einem endogenen Wachstumsmodell mit zunehmender Produktvielfalt. Ein … unvollkommener Rechtsstaat heißt hierbei, dass die Eigentumsrechte im Produktionssektor nicht vollständig geschützt sind. Es zeigt …
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Beyond the Invisible: The Impact of Trade Liberalization and Formalization on Small Businesses in Colombia
Fandl, Kevin J. - 2010
Trade liberalization in Latin America has substantially altered business opportunities andeconomic development in the region. As barriers to competing inputs have come down andforeign investment in the region has gone up, small, domestic firms have struggled to stayafloat. Many small businesses...
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CORRUPTION AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INFLOWS IN EMERGING MARKET ECONOMIES
BAYAR, Yilmaz; ALAKBAROV, Naib - 2016
This study investigates the interaction between corruption and foreign direct investment inflows in 23 emerging market economies during the period 2002-2014 by employing Westerlund-Durbin-Hausman (2008) cointegration test. We found that control of corruption and rule of law had no statistically...
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Leaving the L-Space; Kundenintegration als Erklärungsansatz multinationaler Unternehmen im Dienstleistungssektor - Eine Weiterentwicklung des OLI-Modells
Radmacher-Nottelmann, Nils A. - 2010
Das Wachstum multinationaler Unternehmen (MNU) wird zunehmend durch Investitionen von Dienstleistungsunternehmen vorangetrieben. Die Produktion von Dienstleistungen unterscheidet sich allerdings in mehreren Aspekten von der Herstellung klassischer Industriegüter. Eine zentrale Eigenschaft ist...
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Trade Restrictions and Trade Reversal: Lessons from the U.S.-Canada Herring Dispute
Emami, Ali; Queirolo, Lewis E.; Johnston, Richard S. - 1993
This paper analyzes international trade in value added products when free trade and perfect competition in the market for an intermediate product, such as raw fish, are the exception rather than the rule. Current evidence from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) regarding disputes...
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Economic Analyses of Ontario's Stumpage Pricing System
Yang, Feng'e - 2008
The softwood lumber trade dispute between Canada and the United States has centered on the debate over the existence of a stumpage subsidy in Canada and recently on dumping by the Canadian softwood lumber producers in the U.S. markets. This thesis contains three essays that investigate the...
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Essays on Efficiency in Bargaining
Tiedemann, Jens A.G. - 2010
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Why Do Businesses Use (or Not Use) Arbitration Clauses?
Drahozal, Christopher R.; Ware, Stephen J. - 2010
Some recent scholarship contends that arbitration is failing in its attempts to compete with litigation. When … arbitration does succeed in attracting customers, such as businesses including arbitration clauses in their consumer contracts … arbitration clauses in a sample of material contracts (such as loan commitments and merger agreements) filed with the SEC, and …
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Die Rahmenbedingungen für den Markteintritt ausländischer Versicherungsunternehmen in Vietnam
Nguyen, Tran Thuy - 2009
Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es, welche konkreten Erwägungen ausländische Investoren, vor allem Versicherungsinvestoren veranlassen, in Vietnam zu investieren, welche wirtschaftlichen, gesellschaftlichen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen sie zu erwarten haben und welche Vorrausetzungen sie für ein...
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