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Voluntary Agreements under Endogenous Legislative Threats
Glachant, Matthieu - 2003
The paper analyzes the welfare properties of voluntary agreements (VA) with polluters, when they are obtained under the legislative threat of an alternative stricter policy option. In the model, the threat is an abatement quota. Both the threat and its probability of implementation are...
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Two-dimensional effort in patent-race games and rent-seeking contests: The case of telephony
Faria, João Ricardo; Mixon, Franklin G.; Caudill, Steven B. - In: Games 5 (2014) 2, pp. 116-126
Using the political-economic history of the development of telephony during the 1870s as a backdrop, this paper studies a two-player Tullock contest that includes both research effort (R&D) and legal effort (i.e., rent-seeking effort). The two types of efforts complement each other and...
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Does labor diversity cause agglomeration in Japan?: an NEG approach with a covariance structure analysis
Ihara, Ryusuke; Yamamoto, Shizu - 2012
Using a simplified NEG model, we investigates the relation between labor diversity and agglomeration. In the theoretical part, we assume the following two-region model. Homogenous consumption goods are produced using a constant returns technology with homogenous capital and heterogenous workers....
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Technological Progress and Economic Geography_x0003_
Thisse, Jacques; Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Zhu, Xiwei - 2014
New economic geography focuses on the impact of falling transport costs on the spatial distribution of activities. However, it disregards the role of technological innovations, which are central to modern economic growth, as well as the role of migration costs, which are a strong impediment to...
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Capital and goods market integration and the inequality of nations
Wagner, Martin - 1999
A 2-country model with two groups of agents, workers and capitalists is presented in which economic integration results in an initial phase of catch-up, where the less industrialised country experiences the rise in both capital and labour income. Then, after a certain level of integration has...
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Investment abroad and adjustment at home: Evidence from UK multinational firms
Simpson, Helen - 2007
I use within-firm, plant-level data combined with geographic information on firms’ overseas operations to examine how investment in low-wage economies affects firms’ home-country operations. To remain close to theory I focus on changes in firms’ organisational and industrial structure...
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Globalisation and governance: Contradictions of neo-liberal migration management
Overbeek, Henk - 2002
Neo-liberal globalisation has primarily entailed the liberalisation of trade and capital flows, but largely ignored the … issue of labour mobility. Most literature on the political economy of globalisation likewise ignores global labour mobility …. This paper first asks how globalisation affects human mobility. The conclusion is that globalisation integrates the world …
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Globalisation, inequality and redistribution
Bjorvatn, Kjetil; Cappelen, Alexander W. - 2004
The present paper seeks to explain the pattern of income redistribution in a globalised world of increased market income inequality and lower costs of factor mobility. In some countries, larger market income inequality has been met by an increased redistributive effort, thus keeping the...
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Lost in Translation: Empirical Evidence for Liability of Foreignness as a Barrier to Knowledge Spillovers
Sofka, Wolfgang; Schmidt, Tobias - 2006
Entering host country networks of knowledge flows (new competencies, innovative technologies, and lead-market knowledge) is a major rationale of multinational firms for investing abroad. Foreign firms find it difficult to overcome cultural and social barriers which make their foreign engagements...
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Drivers and Effects of Internationalising Innovation by SMEs
Schmiele, Anja; Rammer, Christian - 2008
This paper investigates the drivers and the effects of the internationalisation of innovation activities in SMEs based on a large data set of German firms covering the period 2002-2007. We look at different stages of the innovation process (R&D, design, production and sales of new products, and...
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