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Constraints on Trade in the MENA region
Wolde, Hirut; Bhattacharya, Rina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
, particularly on exports. We then go on to 'augment' the standard gravity model with relevant variables from the World Bank …
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ESTIMATION ISSUES IN SINGLE COMMODITY GRAVITY TRADE MODELS
Prehn, Soren; Brummer, Bernhard - Gesellschaft für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften … - 2011
Recently gravity trade models are applied to disaggregated trade data. Here many zeros are characteristic. In the presence of excess zeros usual Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) is still consistent, the variance covariance matrix however is invalid. Correct economic interpretation...
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Warum exportiert der Osten so wenig? Eine empirische Analyse der Exportaktivitäten deutscher Bundesländer
Zeddies, Götz - In: AStA Wirtschafts- und Sozialstatistisches Archiv 3 (2009) 4, pp. 241-264
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Outward FDI by Singapore : a different animal?.
Ellingsen, Gaute; Likumahuwa, Winfried; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 2006
Singapore?s outward FDI is peculiar in important respects, even though it shares some characteristics with FDI undertaken by traditional investor countries. The focus of FDI in the manufacturing sector on lower-income Asian host countries suggests that the motivations and trade repercussions of...
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Evidence on Euromediterranean Trade Integration: The Case of German Olive Oil Imports
Kavallari, Aikaterini; Maas, Sarah; Schmitz, P. Michael - In: Journal of International Agricultural Trade and Development 59 (2010) 1
The deepening of the Barcelona Agreement and the discussions of the creation of a Mediterranean Union has awakened the interest of the non-EU Mediterranean countries to expand their exports to the European markets. This study analyses the factors that influence the German imports of olive oil by...
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Culture and Tax Structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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Vrijheid en gebondenheid, ongelijkheid en gelijkheid : Nieuwe breukvlakken in culturele verhoudingen
Halman, L.C.J.M.; van Wezel, J.A.M. - Tilburg University, Work and Organization Research Centre - 1996
In de theorie van o.a. Parsons en M|nch wordt een typologie van waarden-patronen gepresenteerd op basis van de combinaties van twee dimensies, te weten: vrijheid versus gebondenheid, en gelijkheid versus ongelijkheid. Deze typologie van waarden betreft een indeling over maatschappijbeelden,...
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Why Don’t Small and Medium Enterprises Innovate More : Creating a Cooperative Learning Environment at Individual, Firm and Regional Level
Gupta, Anil K - eSocialSciences - 2007
in the world. This is not going to be easy. How can innovations help in not only surpassing the existing benchmarks but … also creating the new ones? How culture of cooperation can reinforce the capability to compete at the firm and the network … enterprises as a basis of regional revitalization in south Italy and several other parts of the world. [IIMA WP No. 2007-08-03]. …
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Alternatives to the concept of permanent establishment : e-commerce and taxation
Charles McLure Jr. - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 3, pp. 10-16
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Minimum wages (Pro and contra) ; contra - the statutory minimum wage ; dangers in success
Shapiro, Judith - In: CESifo Forum 1 (2000) 1, pp. 23-24
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