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Estimating the welfare costs of very high inflations and hyperinflations
Benati, Luca; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2024
equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in …
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Unobserved firm heterogeneity and the size-exports nexus: Evidence from German panel data
Wagner, Joachim - 2002
This paper starts from the stylized fact that firm size and exporting tends to be positively related. Using large sets of establishment panel data for three different industries from official statistics evidence is presented that the familiar picture of an export/sales ratio that ceteris paribus...
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Corporate cash holding in Asia
Horioka, Charles Yuji; Terada-Hagiwara, Akiko - 2013
In this paper, we analyze the determinants of corporate saving in the form of changes in the stock of cash for 11 Asian economies using firm-level data from the Oriana Database for the 2002 - 2011 period. We find some evidence that cash flow has a positive impact on the change in the stock of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332288
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Employment Protection Legislation and the Size of Firms
Garibaldi, Pietro; Pacelli, Lia; Borgarello, Andrea - 2003
The existing literature ignores the fact that in most European countries the strictness of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) varies across the firm size distribution. In Italy firms are obliged to rehire an unfairly dismissed worker only if they employ more than 15 employees....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262751
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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth
Falck, Oliver - 2007
The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses - heavyweights - as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264240
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Firm size and innovation in European manufacturing
Vaona, Andrea; Pianta, Mario - 2006
The paper investigates the differences between small, medium-sized and large firms regarding their performance in the introduction of new products and processes. After a review of the relevant literature, two models are proposed and tested in search for different business strategies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273123
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Preferential trade agreements: The case of EU-Mexico
Busse, Matthias; Huth, Matthias; Koopmann, Georg - 2000
The paper evaluates the political and economic incentives to conclude the EU-Mexico Free Trade Agreement (FTA). It … the EU is likely to gain much more than Mexico. … EU und Mexiko bewertet. Dafür werden die europäische und mexikanische Handelspolitik analysiert und der multilaterale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295609
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Tomatoes or Tomato Pickers? - Free Trade and Migration in the NAFTA Case
del Río, Amaranta Melchor; Thorwarth, Susanne - 2006
This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed … for illegal migration. The results indicate that increasing trade flows cause larger illegal migration from Mexico to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011422132
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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border
Gathmann, Christina - 2004
This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...
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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico
Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000
We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …
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