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How do importing activities matter in explaining firm heterogeneity? How firm performances are related to foreign …
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This paper deals multidimensional examination of performances of a trunk line/route of liner container-shipping network …, technical/technological, operational, economic, environmental, and social performances and their application to the selected … real-life case. The infrastructural performances relate to the characteristics of infrastructure (berths) and container …
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The agricultural performances depend, on the one hand, on the volume, structure and quality of the resources allotted …
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estimate the country-specific cost of capital. We find a negative relationship between institutions that protect property … rights and capital costs. Firms located in countries with weak institutions were charged a premium compared to similarly … risky firms located in countries with strong institutions, and this penalty appeared to be costly in terms of future growth …
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institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …
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This paper reveals how the outcomes of large-scale land acquisitions made by foreign investors in Zambia are determined by the characteristics of the country's land governance system. Proposing a conceptual framework adapted from Williamson (1998), and using evidence constituted by expert...
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This paper proposes an answer to the question of why social unrest sometimes occurs in the wake of an IMF Structural Adjustment Program (SAP). Under certain circumstances, partly determined by a country’s comparative advantage, a nation’s elite may have an incentive to make transfers to the...
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We claim that a sequential mechanism linking history to development exists: first, history defines the quality of social capital; then, social capital determines the level of corruption; finally, corruption affects economic performance. We test this hypothesis on a dataset of Italian provinces,...
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institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …
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the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We …
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