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Good Firms, Worker Flows and Local Productivity

Serafinelli, Michel - 2015

records and balance sheet information for Veneto, a region of Italy with many successful industrial clusters. I first identify …

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Paving the road to export: Assessing the trade impacts of road quality

Blyde, Juan - 2012

Assessing the trade impacts of domestic transport costs is data demanding and analyses that examine the effects of road … few studies available rely mostly on distancebased measures as proxies of transport costs which impede analyzing the trade … effects of transport-infrastructure improvements. In this paper, we combine highly disaggregated records of export flows with …

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Regional Unemployment and Productivity in Europe and the US

Basile, Roberto; Benedictis, Luca De - 2004

The existence and persistence of large spatial disparities in un-employment within national economies is a central issue in regional economics. Previous empirical analyses have largely disregarded the role of fundamentals. On the contrary in this paper we explore the link between labour...

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How important are plant and regional characteristics for labor demand? Plant-level evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Brixy, Udo - 2010

Empirical research on agglomeration and regional economic growth puts high emphasis on the impact of specialization, diversity, and competition on regional employment dynamics (Glaeser et al. 1992, Henderson et al. 1995, Blien et al. 2006, Fuchs 2009). However, Beugelsdijk (2006) and Raspe/van...

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Intangible capital and firms productivity

Marrocu, Emanuela; Paci, Raffaele; Pontis, Marco - 2010

Firms competitive strategy in industrialised countries is increasingly based on activities such as the inventions of new processes and products, the improvements of the employees skill, the creation of a reputation for company's products. All these actions are intended to increase firms economic...

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Does Economic Sanction Work? The Case of North Korea

Oh, Jinhwan - 2010

Based on the gravity model of international trade, this paper initially analyzes North Korea's international trade pattern, which tends to follow the prediction of the gravity model: a positive relationship between trade and trading partners' GDP, and negative relationship between trade and...

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Not in the Shopping Cart - On the experiential aspects of retail shopping centers

Larsson, Hanna; Åsberg, Erik - 2010

Not in the Shopping Cart -On the experiential aspects of retail shopping centers It is not hard to imagine that consumers value not only what they have bought in a store and can take home with them, but also the experience that was entailed in the actual purchase. The aim of the study is to...

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The impact of behavioural structure of Romanian population on economic and social cohesion.

Ailenei, Dorel; Cristescu, Amalia; Angelescu, Coralia - 2010

The transition to market economy has represented both for Romania and other Central and Eastern European countries an emphasis on economic and social inequalities. The authors consider it is necessary to identify a path pass from chaotic inequalities to a state of economic and social cohesion...

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They arrive with new information. Tourism flows and production efficiency in the European regions

Paci, Raffaele; Marrocu, Emanuela - 2010

Firms productivity is crucially influenced by knowledge spillovers generated either by other firms located nearby or by direct contacts with consumers or by foreign demand in the case of traded products. In this paper we propose a new channel of efficiency-enhancing knowledge diffusion, which...

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Legal European company forms to realize FOCJ: Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions

Friedrich, Peter - 2010

Legal European Company Forms to Realize Cross Border FOCJ - Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions Peter Friedrich Since several years Bruno Frey, Eichenberger and other authors launched the idea of a FOCJ "Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdiction". In Switzerland and USA school...

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