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evidence that firms with fdi are lessproductive than firms that export.... …
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Ziel der vorliegenden Fallstudie ist es, Herausforderungen und Erfolgsfaktoren beim Exportwissensintensiver Dienstleistungen aufzuzeigen sowie daraus Implikationen für das Managementabzuleiten. Die Ergebnisse basieren auf einer Befragung von 15 Mitarbeitern der deutschenNiederlassung eines...
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[...]A key observation is that import and export prices roughlytracked each other, with both tracking the behavior of … country’s currency depreciated. For both Thailandand Korea, import and export prices largely followed worldexport prices. For … Thailand, the import and export priceindexes did not seem to have been influenced much by thebaht’s value, while those for …
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profit margins and stable export sales when the valueof the yen fluctuates. We find that Japanese firms tend tostrike a … percentdecline in export margins (relative to the margins on goodssold in Japan) when other factors are held constant. Thatis …
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Will outsourcing be a winner or loser from the global crisis? This sector has been a major beneficiary of the boom in business services trade since the mid-1990s, coinciding with the rise of emerging market economies. This growth survived – indeed was arguably a beneficiary of – the last...
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Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we …nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...
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By analysing a newly compiled database of exchange rates, this paper finds that Central European financial integration advanced in a cyclical fashion over the fifteenth century. The cycles were associated with changes in the money supply. Long-distance financial integration progressed in...
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This paper addresses deinstitutionalisation from a longitudinal perspective. Drawing onthe case of software exports policymaking in Costa Rica, it analyses persistence andchange paying particular attention to formation of dissensus, understood as lack ofunanimity on the value of an activity that...
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railways andexpansion of export agriculture. It addresses the 1850s-1880s period,decades when the `labour question' became a … alternative supplies of labour at a time ofincreasing agro-export production. In 1852 effective action to start thebuilding of …
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Early ethologists such as Niko Tinbergen and Konrad Lorenz faceda problem: What constituted a fact about behaviour? How reliablymust a behaviour be exhibited (and in how many specimens) beforeit could be said to be species-typical? And how similar do thebehaviours of two species need to be...
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