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Rent-Seeking, Institutions and Economic Development : A Tale of Rent-Seeking Society

Khan, Karim - 2012

persistence of inefficient institutions in developing countries. Colonization, social fragmentation and the existence and use of … single factor on its own can explain the persistence of inefficient institutions; rather, it is the combination of exogenous … and endogenous factors that shape institutions …

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The Trade-Off between Foreign Direct Investments and Exports: The Role of Multiple Dimensions of Distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; de Groot, Henri L.F.; Linders, … - 2009

To serve foreign markets, firms can either export or set up a local subsidiary through horizontal Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The conventional proximity-concentration theory suggests that FDI substitutes for trade if distance between countries is large, while exports become more important...

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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade

Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016

How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...

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The trade-off between foreign direct investments and exports : the role of multiple dimensions of distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L. F. de; Linders, … - 2009

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Uncertainty in global sourcing : learning, sequential offshoring, and selection patterns

Larch, Mario; Navarro, Leandro - 2022

We analyse firms' sourcing decisions under institutional uncertainty in foreign countries. Firms can reduce their uncertainty by observing offshoring firms' behaviour. The model characterises a sequential offshoring equilibrium path, led by the most productive firms in the market. With multiple...

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Ideology versus the tyranny of paradigm : historians and the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African societies

Inikori, Joseph E. - In: African economic history 22 (1994), pp. 37-58

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A land far away

Grohall, Guenther; Yegorov, Yuri - 2011

important variables like being landlocked, language, inflation, and so forth. We found recent GDP growth rate to be non …

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Does trade integration imply growth in Latin America? : evidence from a dynamic spatial spillover model

Blasques, F.; Gorgi, P.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Sampi, J. - 2023

To investigate the role of intra-regional trade integration on economic growth in Latin America, we develop a … factor for explaining growth, while the importance of domestic spillovers is limited. The growth volatility is substantively …

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Risk, institutions and growth: Why England and not China?

Greif, Avner; Iyigun, Murat; Sasson, Diego - 2011

different growth trajectories if they differently motivate risk-taking. Historically, risk sharing institutions were selected … shocks or time-dependent state variables. Recognizing the role of non-market institutions in the growth process bridges the …We analyze the role of risk-sharing institutions in transitions to modern economies. Transitions requires individual …

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The growth-distribution nexus in a mixed regime of education with a status motive : on the macroeconomics of the welfare state

Tournemaine, Frédéric; Tsoukis, Christopher - In: Economic modelling 47 (2015), pp. 235-243

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