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Dynamics of China's Regional Development and Pollution
de Groot, Henri L.F.M.; Withagen, Cees A.; Minliang, Zhou - 2001
This paper addresses the existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve for China, using a sampleof thirty regions and … covering the period 1982-1997. The types of pollution included in the studyare wastewater, waste gas and solid waste. We … consider the development of the sources ofpollution in a pooled cross-section analysis considering the pollution in absolute …
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Pollution Across Chinese Provinces
Co, Catherine Yap; Kong, Fanying; Lin, Shuanglin - 2008
industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807629
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Product Heterogeneity, Within-Industry Trade Patterns, and the Home Bias of Consumption?
Auer, Raphael - 2009
Starting with Krugman (1980), much literature has analyzed how trade liberalization affects the economy based on the notion that trade is motivated by consumer's love of variety. In this paper, I augment these preferences by the determinants of demand for heterogeneous products. The model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430069
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Product Heterogeneity, Cross-Country Taste Differences, and the Consumption Home Bias
Auer, Raphael A. - 2013
This paper starts by showing that in the European car industry, there exist cross-country taste differences along the product attribute dimension that significantly drive net trade patterns and reduce the volume of trade. Further it is shown that, after the creation of the European common...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430098
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On the Structural Dimension of Competitive Strategy
Kaniovski, Serguei; Peneder, Michael - 2001
This paper aims at establishing the existence of systematic differences in the nature of competitive strategies available to individual firms across industries. By means of qualitative content analysis, we extracted a matrix of 76 industries times 12 strategies reported as being characteristic...
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A portfolio analysis of industrial structure
Barry, Frank G.; Kearney, Colm - 2003
Industrial sectors producing income-elastic products can grow rapidly but are highly vulnerable to fluctuations in the world economy. Policymakers need to take into account this trade-off between output and employment growth over the longer term and volatility in the short to medium term. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293838
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The adoption of ICT: Firm-level evidence from Irish manufacturing industries
Haller, Stefanie; Traistaru-Siedschlag, Iulia - 2007
This paper examines factors driving ICT adoption at firm level. We use a novel data set including information on ICT and e-commerce in Irish manufacturing firms over the period 2001-2004 and estimate a model derived from the new technology adoption literature that relates ICT adoption indicators...
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Is the Elephant Stepping on its Trunk? The Problem of India's Unbalanced Growth
Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2008
It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggest that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320358
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Is the elephant stepping on its trunk? The problem of India´s unbalanced growth
Douhan, Robin; Nordberg, Anders - 2007
It is often assumed that recent success in the high-technology software industry will lead India's development. However, evidence suggests that basic manufacturing industry is stagnant. This paper proposes a mechanism that ties these two trends together. A big-push type of model, featuring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321626
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Credit and Product Market Effects of Banking Deregulation: Evidence from the French Experience
Bertrand, Marianne; Schoar, Antoinette; Thesmar, David - In: CESifo DICE Report 03 (2005) 3, pp. 61-65
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