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Soft budget constraints and regional industrial policy : reinterpreting the rise and fall of De Lorean
Brownlow, Graham - 2014
The rise and fall of De Lorean Motor Cars Limited (DMCL) has been traditionally interpreted as the result either of John De Loreanś psychological flaws or as confirming the supposedly inherent weaknesses in activist industrial policy. However, when the episode is examined in more detail,...
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Soft budget constraints and regional industrial policy: Reinterpreting the rise and fall of De Lorean
Brownlow, Graham - 2014
The rise and fall of De Lorean Motor Cars Limited (DMCL) has been traditionally interpreted as the result either of John De Lorean´s psychological flaws or as confirming the supposedly inherent weaknesses in activist industrial policy. However, when the episode is examined in more detail,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421086
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Soft budget constraints and regional industrial policy : reinterpreting the rise and fall of DeLorean
Brownlow, Graham - In: Cambridge journal of economics 40 (2016) 6, pp. 1497-1515
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Responses to a crisis: FASA-Renault in Spain during the 1970s
Fernandez-de-Sevilla, Tomas - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2011
This paper analyses the trajectory of the Spanish automobile firm FASA-Renault during the 1970s. This period comprises the early years of the crisis experienced by the Spanish economy and industry between 1974 and 1985. At the external level, the Spanish economy was affected by two oil shocks....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293133
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A myth of soft budget constraints in socialist economies
Popov, Vladimir V. - 2020
Most of the time the budget constraints in the socialist economies were harder than in developing countries and no less hard than in developed countries. The soft budget constraints (SBC) in socialist economies were not pervasive, as most authors believe, but selective, i.e. involved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208329
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A myth of soft budget constraints in socialist economies
Popov, Vladimir V. - 2020
Most of the time the budget constraints in the socialist economies were harder than in developing countries and no less hard than in developed countries. The soft budget constraints (SBC) in socialist economies were not pervasive, as most authors believe, but selective, i.e. involved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012692744
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On the origin of the German East-West population gap
Eder, Christoph; Halla, Martin - 2018
The East-West gap in the German population is believed to originate from migrants escaping the socialist regime in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). We use newly collected regional data and the combination of a regression discontinuity design in space with a difference-in-differences...
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Institutions and Asia's development : the role of norms and organizational power
Khan, Mushtaq H. - 2018
The role of institutions in Asian development has been intensely contested since Myrdal's Asian Drama, with later … agree about the institutions that matter nor do they explain why similar institutions delivered such different results … across countries. Cultural norms and informal institutions clearly matter but the appropriate norms did not already exist in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922086
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Productive development policies in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of Mexico
Baz, Verónica; Capelo, María Cristina; Centeno, Rodrigo; … - 2010
While Mexico has potential to grow rapidly, its economic growth has remained low for the past three decades. There is no consensus on the country s development path or on how to achieve specific goals. Since the policy debate remains ideological and lacks pragmatism, productive development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010246554
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Industrial policy in practice : Africa's Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils
Page, John M. - 2014
Recent writing on industrial policy stresses the need for coordination between the public and private sectors. This paper examines the performance of one such coordination mechanism, Presidential Investors' Advisory Councils, in Ethiopia, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda. It finds that the councils...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408445