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Shedding New Light on Multinational Corporations and Human Rights : Promises and Limits of 'Blockchainizing' the Global Supply Chain

Tsai, Chang-hsien; Lin, Ching-Fu - 2023

Over the last few decades, advances in transportation and production technology, in conjunction with economic globalization and the emergence of multinational corporations, have consolidated fragmented production processes into long and complex supply chains across jurisdictions. While there are...

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Persistence of entrepreneurship in different historical contexts

Fritsch, Michael; Pylak, Korneliusz; Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

Persistence of entrepreneurship over longer periods of time could indicate a culture of entrepreneurship among the … World War II, the relationship between historical and current levels of entrepreneurship is not significant. Persistence of … entrepreneurship is related to the historical success of regions, which we capture by the pre-war level of and self-employment in …

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The long road to normalcy: Where Russia now stands

Popov, Vladimir - 2010

The goal of this study is to reveal the long-term trajectory of Russian economic development and to make predictions for the future. The study starts with a much discussed question: why Russia did worse economically during transition than most other countries in Europe and Asia? It is argued...

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Did Growth and Reforms Increase Citizens' Support for the Transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011

How did post-communist transformations affect people's perceptions of their economic and political systems? We model a pseudo-panel with 89 country-year clusters, based on 13 countries observed between 1991 and 2004, to identify the macro and institutional drivers of the public opinion. Our main...

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The Argentina Paradox: Microexplanations and macropuzzles

Taylor, Alan M. - In: Latin American Economic Review 28 (2018) 1, pp. 1-17

The economic history of Argentina presents one of the most dramatic examples of divergence in the modern era. What happened and why? This paper reviews the wide range of competing explanations in the literature and argues that, setting aside deeper social and political determinants, the various...

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Prospects for Further (South-) Eastern EU Enlargement: from Divergence to Convergence?

Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Landesmann, Michael - 2003

This paper looks at the experience of South East Europe which -- for the purposes of this paper -- includes the former states of Yugoslavia except for Slovenia (i.e. Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia), Albania, and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and Romania....

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Determinants of real exchange rate movements in 15 emerging market economies

Goda, Thomas; Priewe, Jan - 2019

Previous work has established that an appreciation of the real exchange rate (REER) contributes to premature deindustrialization, less productive investment and dependence on commodity booms and busts in emerging markets economies (EME). From the previous literature, it is less clear however...

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Did growth and reforms increase citizens' support for the transition?

Golinelli, Roberto; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2011

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Prospects for Further (South) Eastern EU Enlargement: Form Divergence to Convergence?

Gligorov, Vladimir; Holzner, Mario; Landesmann, Michael - 2003

This paper looks at the experience of South East Europe which – for the purposes of this paper – includes the former states of Yugoslavia except for Slovenia (i.e. Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia), Albania, and the two EU candidate countries, Bulgaria and...

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Moving the center: Adapting the toolbox of growth model research to emerging capitalist economies

Mertens, Daniel; Nölke, Andreas; May, Christian; … - 2022

The growth model perspective has provided positive momentum for Comparative and International Political Economy. This article seeks to move beyond the existing geographical confines of this perspective to elaborate on its potential for enhancing our understanding of the trajectories of different...

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