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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2011
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008822903
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Relational contracts and the economic well-being of nations
Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Pflüger, Michael - 2010
Informal long-term relationships and mutual confidence play a crucial role in modern economies in at least two dimensions. First, the performance of firms is strongly affected by their capacity to solve organizational questions effectively and this capacity is apparently strongly related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314275
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Sourcing of services and total factor productivity
Dhyne, Emmanuel; Duprez, Cédric - 2022
find that productivity gains from outsourcing of services activities may be substantial. Reducing local trade costs might …This paper studies how outsourcing of services activities affects TFP at the firm level. Using the universe of buyer …-supplier relationships in Belgium, we first document several new empirical facts about how firms engage in the outsourcing of supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013466942
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Capital Goods Trade, Relative Prices, and Economic Development
Mutreja, Piyusha - 2019
International trade in capital goods has quantitatively important effects on economic development through capital formation and TFP. Capital goods trade enables poor countries to access more efficient technologies, leading to lower relative prices of capital goods and higher capital-output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210472
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Capital goods trade, relative prices, and economic development
Mutreja, Piyusha; Ravikumar, B.; Sposi, Michael - 2017
International trade in capital goods has quantitatively important effects on economic development through capital formation and TFP. Capital goods trade enables poor countries to access more efficient technologies, leading to lower relative prices of capital goods and higher capital-output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011690972
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Capital Goods Trade, Relative Prices, and Economic Development
Mutreja, Piyusha - 2017
International trade in capital goods has quantitatively important effects on economic development through two channels: capital formation and aggregate TFP. We embed a multi country, multi sector Ricardian model of trade into a neoclassical growth framework. Our model matches several trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965731
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Imperfect Labor Contracts and International Trade
Grossman, Gene M. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1998
In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of human capital are an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two sectors, one where output is produced by teams and another where individuals can work alone. When worker’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928196
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Imperfect Labor Contracts and International Trade
Grossman, Gene M. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1998
In an economy with imperfect labor contracts, differences in the distribution of human capital are an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two sectors, one where output is produced by teams and another where individuals can work alone. When worker’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005435958
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Imperfect Labour Contracts and International Trade
Grossman, Gene - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
In an economy with imperfect labour contracts, differences in the distribution of human capital are an independent source of comparative advantage. I study a world economy with two sectors, one where output is produced by teams and another where individuals can work alone. When workers'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661464
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A new international division of labor in Europe : outsourcing and offshoring to East-Central and Eastern Europe
Marin, Dalia - In: Competitiveness of new Europe : papers from the second …, (pp. 122-136). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003782989