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Cooperation behaviour and innovation performance in the Nigerian manufacturing industry
Egbetokun, Abiodun A. - 2012
Analysing the relationship between firms' openness to external knowledge and their innovation performance is nothing … do not. Thus, while openness to external knowledge might help firms to become better at innovating, it does not assist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291813
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Regulation, trade and economic growth
Koeniger, Jens; Silberberger, Magdalena - 2015
The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a country´s regulatory framework are amplified by economic integration, which makes factors...
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Investigating the Influence of Economic and Socio-Political Openness on Growth
Malešević-Perović, Lena; Šimić, Vladimir; Muštra, … - In: International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied … 6 (2013) 3, pp. 35-59
This paper investigates the influence of international openness on economic growth in a sample of 32 European economies …. The usual approach in the literature on the topic is to observe the impact of trade openness on growth. We, however …, broaden this standard approach and analyse not only economic aspect of openness but also socio-political aspect. In our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011310256
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The Origins of Terrorism: Cross-Country Estimates on Socio-economic Determinants of Terrorism
Freytag, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J.; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2010
As a prerequisite of an appropriate anti-terror strategy, it is indispensable to assess the underlying causes of terror. We examine social and economic conditions in the country of origin of terrorist attacks, claiming that low opportunity costs of terror, e.g., approximated by slow growth and...
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Philippine Productivity Dynamics in the Last Five Decades and Determinants of Total Factor Productivity
Llanto, Gilberto M. - 2012
, greater openness of the economy, and macroeconomic stability are indispensable. …
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On the Determinants of Labour Market Institutions: Rent-sharing vs. Social Insurance
Agell, Jonas - 2000
What determines the structure of labour market institutions? This paper argues that common explanations based on rent sharing are incomplete; unions, job protection, and egalitarian pay structures may have as much to do with social insurance of otherwise uninsurable risks as with rent sharing and...
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao; Ravikumar, B.; Riezman, Raymond - 2013
This paper deals with a classic development question: how can the process of economic development - transition from stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology - be accelerated? Lewis (1954) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of...
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Naturally Negative: The Growth Effects of Natural Disasters
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2013
affected by geophysical disasters; rich more by meteorological events. International openness and democratic institutions …
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Determinants of foreign direct investment: A comparative analysis of Turkey and Poland
Mangir, Fatih; Ay, Ahmet; Saraç, Taha Bahadır - In: Economic and Environmental Studies (E&ES) 12 (2012) 1, pp. 65-86
correlated with market size and openness of the economy in Poland. For Turkey, a bidirectional relationship between FDI and … market size as well as between FDI and openness of the economy has been observed. No relation between FDI and inflation has …
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Trade with central and eastern Europe: Is it really a threat to wages in the west?
Polgár, Éva Katalin; Wörz, Julia - 2010
This paper analyses the relationship between openness to trade and wages at the industry level (15 manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605290