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Why do lawyers in some jurisdictions continue to ‘automatically’ exclude the 1980 UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) in their choices of law for international sales contracts? Why do lawyers in other jurisdictions approach the decision very differently? Why...
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A known policy dilemma occurs between the need to curb extra-large profits by some industries, like pharmaceuticals, and the need to ensure the incentive to produce is not damaged. This paper shows that a profit cap, imposed via taxation on a group of firms, can simultaneously eliminate...
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Creating a financial advantage is important in today's competitive business world. When looking at critical reasons for success, a great deal can be learned by the role finance plays in a quality movement. Each quality movement has priorities. Financial management's importance varies by program....
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Creating a financial advantage is important in today's competitive business world. When looking at critical reasons for success, a great deal can be learned by the role finance plays in a quality movement. Each quality movement has priorities. Financial management's importance varies by program....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987918
ISO 9000 certification. On this basis, the paper provides research-driven advice to managers facing a decision whether to … the impact of certification on a longitudinal and representative dataset. The main result is that, according the recent … of certification is not homogeneous among countries and economic sectors and that third-party certification fees are only …
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We use comparable micro level panel data for 14 countries and a set of identically specified empirical models to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now familiar from the literature: Exporters are more...
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This paper investigates whether preferential trade agreements (PTA) promote exports to third nations through the expansion of the extensive margin (i.e. larger number of export goods). The analysis covers 11 South-South and South-North PTAs involving 36 countries that exported to 118 different...
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Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It...
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Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship bet-ween productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010263828
While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated empirically using aggregate data for countries and industries for a long time, only recently have comprehensive longitudinal data at the firm level been used to look at the extent and...
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