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International trade with food and agricultural products : aspect of nontariff barriers
Daniloska, Nataša - In: Economic development : journal of the Institute of … 17 (2015) 1/2, pp. 163-174
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011341318
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The Visible Hand: National Oil Companies, Oil Supply and the Ermergence of the Hotelling Rent
Ludwig, Markus - 2012
Using firm-level panel data, this paper exposes differences in the dynamic oil produc- tion regime between private and … private firms hold output constant. Furthermore, state-owned firms have not followed such stringent policy before 1997. My ex …- tension of the Hotelling-model attributes the behavior of state-owned firms to a scarcity rent, whereas private firms produce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390681
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Unraveling the Shift to the Entrepreneurial Economy
Audretsch, D.B.; Thurik, A.R. - 2010
to suggest some of the factors leading to this shift and implications for public policy. In particular, we find that a … rethinking of the public policy approach. Rather than the focus of directly and exclusively on promoting startups and SMEs, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326000
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Competition, loan rates and information dispersion in microcredit markets
Baquero, Guillermo; Hamadi, Malika; Heinen, Andréas - 2012
We study the effects of competition on loan rates and portfolio-at-risk in microcredit markets using a new database from rating agencies, covering 379 microbanks located in 67 countries between 2002 and 2008. Our study reveals different competitive effects in nonprofit and for-profit microbanks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352061
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Calling party pays or receiving party pays? : the diffusion of mobile telephony with endogenous regulation
Dewenter, Ralf; Kruse, Jörn - 2010
This paper analyzes the impact on mobile telephony diffusion patterns of the two predominant payment regimes, calling party pays (CPP) and receiving party pays (RPP), for mobile termination services. By applying instrumental variable techniques to panel data we account for a possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008668818
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Competition, loan rates and information dispersion in microcredit markets
Baquero, Guillermo; Hamadi, Malika; Heinen, Andréas - 2012
We study the effects of competition on loan rates and portfolio-at-risk in microcredit markets using a new database from rating agencies, covering 379 microbanks located in 67 countries between 2002 and 2008. Our study reveals different competitive effects in nonprofit and for-profit microbanks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009491676
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Unraveling the shift to the entrepreneurial economy
Audretsch, David B.; Thurik, Adriaan R. - 2011 - Current version: April 2011
to suggest some of the factors leading to this shift and implications for public policy. In particular, we find that a … rethinking of the public policy approach. Rather than the focus of directly and exclusively on promoting startups and SMEs, it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011381042
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The visible hand : national oil companies, oil supply and the ermergence of the hotelling rent
Ludwig, Markus - 2012
Using firm-level panel data, this paper exposes differences in the dynamic oil production regime between private and … private firms hold output constant. Furthermore, state-owned firms have not followed such stringent policy before 1997. My … extension of the Hotelling-model attributes the behavior of state-owned firms to a scarcity rent, whereas private firms produce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009717282
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Usage and diffusion of cellular telephony, 1998 - 2004
Grajek, Michał; Kretschmer, Tobias - 2007
We study the dynamics of usage intensity of second-generation cellular telephony over the diffusion curve. Specifically, we address two questions: First, can we draw conclusions about the underlying drivers of technology diffusion by studying usage intensity? Second, what is the effect of high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357573
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Perspectives on the knowledge-based society : an introduction to the special issue
Rockett, Katharine - 2012
Knowledge exchange, innovation policy, and international trade flows are key aspects of the knowledge-based economy. In her introduction to the special issue on The Knowledge-Based Society: Transition, Geography, and Competition Policy the author briefly reviews these aspects. She begins with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009615765