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Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We model entry by entrepreneurs into new markets in developing economies with regulatory barriers in the form of … licence fees and bureaucratic delay. Because laissez faire leads to ‘excessive’ entry, a licence fee can increase welfare by … discouraging entry. However, in the presence of a licence fee, bureaucratic delay creates a strategic opportunity, which can result …

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Regulatory Barriers & Entry in Developing Economies

Bennett, John; Estrin, Saul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

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Usage d'Internet et du téléphone mobile en Afrique : une comparaison des déterminants d'adoption sur données gabonaises

Thierry, PENARD; Nicolas, POUSSING; Gabriel, ZOMO YEBE; … - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012

Dans les pays développés, la téléphonie mobile et l’Internet ont suivi des trajectoires A l’inverse, le continent africain se caractérise par des processus de diffusion asynchrones, la pénétration de la téléphonie mobile (41% fin 2010) étant bien supérieure à celle de...

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Clusterwettbewerbe: Eine Option für Entwicklungsländer?

Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Cluster policy has gained remarkable prominence in regional and sectoral structural policy in industrialized countries. Instead of compensating for weaknesses it focuses on strengths in the local and regional economic structure. In Germany, handing out regional development funds in competitions...

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‘Cold, Calculating Political Economy’: Fixed costs, the Rate of Profit and the Length of the Working Day in the Factory Act Debates, 1832-1847.

Toms, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

The paper re-analyses the evidence presented by pro and anti-regulation interests during the debates on factory reform. To do so it considers the interrelationship between fixed costs, the rate of profit and the length of the working day. The interrelationship casts new light on the lobbying...

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Exportinduziertes Wachstum als Chance für die „nächsten Tiger“?

Benner, Maximilian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

Using a strategy of export-led growth and an activist industrial policy, Japan, the Asian Tigers and more recently China have attained high rates of economic growth. Export-led growth has taken over the status as model for developing countries' economic development from the formerly prevailing...

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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward (the...

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The Economics of Climate Change and Science of Global Warming Debate:African Perspectives

Nwaobi, Godwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include...

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Creative accounting in the British Industrial Revolution: Cotton manufacturers and the ‘Ten Hours’ Movement.

Toms, Steven; Shepherd, Alice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The paper examines an early case of creative accounting, and how, during British industrialization, accounting was enlisted by the manufacturers’ interest to resist demands, led by the ‘Ten hours’ movement, for limiting the working day. In contrast to much of the prior literature, which...

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Comparative advantage, industrial policy and the World Bank: back to first principles

Singh, Ajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

Abstract This paper provides a critical analysis of the World Bank’s new thinking on industrial policy. After outlining the changing perspectives on industrial policy put forward by the World Bank over the last three decades, we argue that the bank’s economists have taken one step forward...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260514