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CHINA: REGIONAL DISPARITIES IN POVERTY DISTRIBUTION

SHEN, CHUNLI; ZOU, HENG-FU - In: Division of Labor & Transaction Costs (DLTC) 03 (2008) 01, pp. 17-56

China's remarkable poverty alleviation is quite uneven across regions in the last quarter of the century. It is important to explore why China has such huge disparity in poverty distribution in spite of overall dramatic economic growth and the vast improvement in per capita income. The aim of...

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Foreign Expansion by Italian Manufacturing Firms in the Nineties: an Ordered Probit Analysis

Basile, Roberto; Giunta, Anna; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - EconWPA - 2003

This paper develops a foreign expansion index (FEI) of the firm which integrates various dimensions of commitment to internationalization, i.e. exports, foreign penetration operations and FDI. This study focuses on Italy, constructing FEIs for each of some 4,000 firms for three periods...

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'Getting Carried Away in Auctions as Imperfect Value Discovery'

Rasmusen, Eric - EconWPA - 2004

Bidders have to decide whether and when to incur the cost of estimating their own values in auctions. This can explain why people seem to get carried away, bidding higher than they had planned before the auction and then finding they had paid more than the object was worth to them. Even when...

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MEASURING WILLINGNESS-TO-PAY IN DISCRETE CHOICE MODELS WITH SEMI- PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES

Garcia, Pablo M - EconWPA - 2005

It is usual to estimate willingness-to-pay in discrete choice models through Logit models –or their expanded versions-. Nevertheless, these models have very restrictive distributional assumptions. This paper is intended to examine the above mentioned issue and to propose an alternative...

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The Federal Government Role in the Development of the American Software Industry: An Assessment

Langlois, Richard N.; Mowery, David C. - EconWPA - 1995

This paper is an interpretive history of federal support for the American software industry from its beginnings through … the 1980s. As in other high-technology cases, federal _ especially defense-related _ support for software was crucial … those of a burgeoning commercial market. The case of software differs from those of other high-technology industries …

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The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia

Laplange, Patrick; Glover, Maurice; Fry, Tim - EconWPA - 2005

This Productivity Commission staff working paper, The Growth of Labour Hire Employment in Australia, was released in February 2005. This staff working paper is part of an ongoing labour market research program at the Productivity Commission to examine developments in employment relationships and...

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Explaining Sunday shop policies

Dijkgraaf, Elbert; Gradus, Raymond - EconWPA - 2004

Dutch municipalities have the right to decide on Sunday shop opening hours since 1996. Despite positive effects on economic growth and employment, many municipalities restrict Sunday trading in one way or another. Based on 2003 data we show that especially religious and political afilliation,...

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A Proposal to Promote Local Competition: The LoopCo Plan

Morris, Roy - EconWPA - 1998

The LoopCo Plan, which uses market mechanisms to promote competition, is the best approach to restructuring the telecommunications market, say its proponents, who object to the requirements and to-date implementation of the Telecommunications Act of l996. The local-loop's spin-off 's consumer...

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L'evoluzione del ruolo di Poste Italiane nel sistema finanziario italiano

Oldani, Chiara - EconWPA - 2005

Il sistema bancario e finanziario italiano utilizza l’innovazione per modificare la propria struttura e per cogliere nuove occasioni di profittabilità e di miglioramento della performance. Le banche italiane, sottoposte ad una crescente pressione concorrenziale a causa delle mutate condizioni...

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Growth in the “New Economy”: U.S. Bandwidth Use and Pricing Across the 1990s

Galbi, Douglas A. - EconWPA - 2003

An acceleration in the growth of communications bandwidth in use and a rapid reduction in bandwidth prices have not accompanied the U.S. economy’s strong performance in the second half of the 1990s. Overall U.S. bandwidth in use has grown robustly throughout the 1990s, but growth has not...

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