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century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …
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This paper reviews the economics of trade policy in financial services, highlighting differences between trade across borders and through commercial presence. Trade liberalization could complement other financial reforms by enhancing the efficiency, quality, and variety of financial services and...
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We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the abundance of "intangible" capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other hand,...
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functioning of the Federal contracting system in the procurement of goods and services. …
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of firms winning public procurement contracts and (ii) competition for the contracts and savings of the public authority …. These characteristics are compared for two groups of public procurement contract winners that differ by their ownership … percentage points and participate in less competitive public procurement contracts and result into lower savings for the public …
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procurement. This issue is analysed on the sector of infrastructure buildings in the Czech Republic. The main goal of the paper is … the transport infrastructure in the Czech Republic and describes the main steps in the process of public procurement …
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of public procurement market on the municipal level is controlled through the municipal firms. In the third part I have …
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globally integrated procurement organization to achieve global and local sourcing responsiveness and superior supplier working … relations. The study found that if a global procurement organization aspires to achieve exceptional supplier working relations …, it should be highly integrated across its geographic regions with knowledgeable global and local procurement personnel …
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International investors with 'footloose capital' have often pushed the host countries into what Keynes (1936) calls a 'beauty contest', which means that they have to give many concessions to attract foreign investment. They receive concessions and leave whenever it suits them and often when the...
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Firm-level data for the Czech Republic during 1992–6 suggest that foreign investment has tended to flow to firms of above average size, initial profitability and initial labour productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find that foreign investment has a positive, but...
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