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Hidden climate change related risks for the private sector
Brunsmeier, Annette; Groth, Markus - 2015
Climate change related risks impact and challenge the private sector in many different ways. This also applies to risk … drivers like a companies' reputation and a changing consumer behavior. Since significant risk drivers for companies differ … just as much as companies themselves, a sector specific guideline to evaluate possible climate change related risk drivers …
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Green Investment by Firms : Finance or Climate Driven?
Kalantzis, Fotios; Schweiger, Helena; Dominguez, Sofia - 2022
There is limited research on the determinants of firms’ green investment strategies in developing regions despite their importance to meet global climate change targets. Understanding how changes in firm climate investment affect environmental performance is essential for policy makers and...
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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity : Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - 2015
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in the global pulp and paper industry. This industry is important because it has traditionally accounted for significant amounts of employment and capital investment in North...
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Investments in Modernization, Innovation and Gains in Productivity : Evidence from Firms in the Global Paper Industry
Ghosal, Vivek; Nair-Reichert, Usha - 2015
This paper examines the impact of investments in modernization and innovation on productivity in a sample of firms in the global pulp and paper industry. This industry is important because it has traditionally accounted for significant amounts of employment and capital investment in North...
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The Changing Structure of the Global Large Civil Aircraft Industry and Market : Implications for the Competitiveness of the U.S. Industry
Andersen, Peder A. - 2009
For the last 50 years, the United States has been the leading supplier of LCA to the world. Changes in the structure of the global LCA industry and its market may ultimately affect the U.S. industry’s continued dominance, as competition increases and aspiring producers seek to enter the...
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Two worlds apart? : export demand shocks and domestic sales
Erbahar, Aksel A. - 2018
Traditional heterogeneous firms and trade models predict no causal relationship between firms' exports and domestic sales. This paper, using a rich dataset on Turkish firms for the 2005-14 period, analyzes the relationship between firm-product sales in different markets for the first time in the...
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Growing Like China : Firm Performance and Global Production Line Position
Chor, Davin - 2020
Global value chains have fundamentally transformed international trade and development in recent decades. We use matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese firms position themselves in global production lines and...
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Global supply chains, value added and production intensity : case semiconductors
Holmström, Harald; Kenney, Martin; Seppäläinen, Timo O. - 2021
Semiconductor chips and their production are foundational for future innovation, future developments of digitalization, and economic prosperity. However, the role of production when discussing who is creating and capturing value across different industrial supply chains has often been...
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Climate change and industrial policy
Naudé, Wim - 2011
This paper explores the implications of climate change for industrial policy (IP). Five implications are discussed, namely the need for international coordination of IPs; for putting human development, and not emission targets, as the overriding objective of low-carbon IP; of stimulating...
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Job creation and trade in manufactures : industry-level analysis across countries
Shiferaw, Admasu; Hailu, Degol - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-36
This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large sample of developed, developing, and transition economies. We find that developing countries need atypically high rates of value-added growth (about 10 %) to increase...
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