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The Global Wood Furniture Value Chain : What Prospects for Upgrading by Developing Countries
Kaplinsky, Raphael; Memedovic, Olga; Morris, Mike; … - 2008
Because of its resource and labour intensity, the wood furniture sector presents an opportunity for developing countries and their firms to participate effectively in the global economy. This paper begins with a brief description of the global wood furniture industry and highlights the...
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Counterparty Credit Risk and Clearing of Derivatives – From the Perspective of an Industrial Corporate with a Focus on Commodity Markets
Lehrbass, Frank - 2013
The Global Financial Crisis had a severe impact on the commodity markets on top of the well-known effects on the worldwide economy. Not only the demand for commodities decreased severely thereby hurting the creditworthiness of participants in the wholesale commodity markets, but also the...
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The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms
Alfaro, Laura - 2014
The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly transforming the global landscape of industrial production. But are the emerging clusters of multinational production the rule or the exception? What drives the offshore agglomeration of multinational firms in comparison to...
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Infrastructure Issues in the Financial Services Industry : A Case for a Central Counterparty for Data Management
Grody, Allan D. - 2010
Collaboration and risk sharing through industry sponsored centralized facilities, i.e. clearing houses, central securities depositories, payment and netting systems, and central counterparties, has been used extensively in the financial services industry. However, it has only been applied to the...
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Financial Reform and the Big 4 Audit Firms
Ascher, Bernard - 2010
The world's audit industry is concentrated in the hands of four big accounting firms: PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Ernst & Young, and Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (the Big 4). These firms are in a strong position in that they audit the financial statements of nearly all the global public companies...
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Hedging the Counterparty Credit Risk of an Oil Company with Oil Futures Using Dynamic GARCH – A Derivative's Approach to Right-Way Risk
Lehrbass, Frank - 2014
If the creditworthiness of a counterparty is a derivative of a commodity price, there is the potential to have right- or wrong-way exposures in respective commodity transaction. Identifying them is important, because otherwise credit costs might be inadequately calculated and wrong incentives...
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How Does Capital Intensity affect the Relationship between Outward FDI and Productivity? Micro-evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms
Zhou, Chao - 2021
Based on outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) data of Chinese manufacturing companies in the period of 2001-20142016, this paper examines the impact of capital intensity on the casual relationship between outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and productivity. Results show that, first,...
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The Effects of Outward FDI and Export on Firm Productivity in Emerging Markets : Evidence from Matching Approach
Zhou, Chao - 2021
This study disentangles the effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and export on the productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms by using the propensity score matching approach with multiple treatments. Results show that just OFDI has a significant positive impact on firm...
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Wirtschaftliche Verflechtungen im Grenzraum Sachsen – Böhmen – Niederschlesien
Lehmann, Robert; Steinbrecher, Johannes; Thum, Marcel - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …
wirtschaftlichen Integration zwischen Deutschland, der Tschechischen Republik und Polen. Von Interesse sind dabei insbesondere die … sächsischen Grenzregionen sowie die Nachbarregionen in Polen und Tschechien. <br>In der Untersuchung werden zunächst die …. <br>Die Studie zeigt den hohen wirtschaftlichen Verflechtungsgrad zwischen Sachsen, Polen und der Tschechischen Republik …
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