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Environmental regulation, comparative advantage and the Porter hypothesis
Albrecht, Johan - 1998
Empirical surveys find no significant impact of environmental regulation and environmental costs on international competitiveness. In the literature, we can find three hypotheses on the impact of environmental regulation. For the industrial-flight and pollution-haven hypothesis, there is no...
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Can Horticulture be a Success Story for India?
Mittal, Surabhi - 2007
India is the second largest producer of the fruits and vegetables in the world after China. Since the 1980s the international trade in fruits and vegetables has expanded rapidly. The number of commodities as well as the number of varieties produced and traded have drastically increased during...
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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper … examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer … contrast, no effect is present for import competition from low-wage countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Decomposing the …
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Audiovisual Services Sector: Can the Philippines Follow "Bollywood?"
Lantin, Angelina M.; Pasadilla, Gloria O. - 2005
The paper is an industry study of the audiovisual services sector, specially the film and television industry in the Philippines. It discusses the importance of the sector in the economy and employment, its strengths and weaknesses, regulations that affect it, and the competitive forces that...
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Location decisions in a changing labour market environment
Frank, Björn - 2003
We study the location of various film-related services (such as camera rental, casting agencies or pyrotechnic services), the main determinant of interest being the human capital specificity. We show that firms which supply services with a lower firm specificity locate farther away from one...
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Comparative advantages in agro-food trade of Hungary, Croatia and Slovenia with the European Union
Bojnec, Štefan; Fertő, Imre - 2007
This paper investigates comparative trade advantages in agro-food trade. We analyze comparative advantages of Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian agro-food trade in the European Union (EU). The empirical research seeks to explain how revealed comparative advantages have developed across countries,...
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Empirical Relevance of the Hillman Condition and Comparative Advantage
Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2004
We analyze the empirical violation of the Hillman condition, a necessary and sufficient condition for the correspondence between comparative advantage and pre-trade relative prices. Our comprehensive data set allows us to investigate the Hillman condition for virtually all countries of the...
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Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: On Revealed Comparative Advantage And Merger Waves
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2007
By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2007) general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) model (incorporating strategic interaction between firms in a general equilibrium...
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Competition, markups, and the gains from international trade
Edmond, Chris; Midrigan, Virgiliu; Xu, Daniel Yi - 2013
We study the gains from trade in a model with endogenously variable markups. We show that the pro-competitive gains from trade are large if the economy is characterized by (i) extensive misallocation, i.e., large inefficiencies associated with markups, and (ii) a weak pattern of cross-country...
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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice
Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - 2012
The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way contract enforcement institutions determine international trade...
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