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Essays on Banking, Institutions, and Macroeconomic Activity
Hachem, Kinda - 2011
This thesis investigates the role of institutions in shaping macroeconomic phenomena. The first two chapters focus on … financial institutions, formalizing interactions between information and competition in frictional credit markets and providing … relationship between political institutions and growth.In Chapter 1, I construct a credit-based model of production to analyze how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480641
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Three essays on adaptive learning, institutions and multiple equilibria
Steiger, Laura Christina - 2009
This dissertation examines the role that institutions play in the existence of multiple equilibria in models of … dissertation presents an empirical test for the role that human capital and institutions may play in transitions between equilibria … probabilities. I find that political and economic institutions are similar in their effects on transitions arid that the time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447394
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Institutional Structure in Corporate Agriculture
Bhutani, Niti - 2010
In this dissertation, a state-contingent, principal-agent model is developed to examine the institution of input provision by a corporate firm that contracts with agents for the production of a given commodity. "Input provision" entails not only the provision and delivery of key inputs by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450808
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Regulation, Institutions, and Productivity Growth
Oviedo Silva, Ana Maria - 2006
This dissertation investigates how the investment climate affects firm dynamics, productivity, and macroeconomic performance across countries. The first chapter provides an empirical analysis of the macroeconomic impact of business regulation. It characterizes the stylized facts on regulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450826
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The internationalisation of Chinese firms: determinants and the influence of dynamic capabilities and institutions on the post-internationalisation performance
Gao, Lan - 2011
foreign directinvestment (OFDI), while the latter examines the influence of dynamiccapabilities and institutions on the post … dynamic capabilities and institutions on thepost-internationalisation performance of Chinese firms, this study integratesthe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009461326
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Organizations and ethics : antecedents and consequences of the adoption and implementation of the ethics and compliance officer position
Haunschild, Pamela R. (contributor) - 2011
As open systems, organizations interact with their environments and respond to laws, norms, and other pressures to conform in search of societal legitimacy. Organizations, however, are far from uniform in their responses to institutional pressures. As entities with idiosyncratic sets of values...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429363
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Gravity model applications and macroeconomic perspectives
Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013
This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744094
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Empirical studies on public debt and fiscal transfers
Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016
This volume includes five self-contained chapters in the fields of public debt and fiscal transfer schemes. After an introduction to the topic, chapter 2 shows that the institutional setting of fiscal policy making needs to be considered when assessing the sustainability of fiscal policy. Using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742833
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Institutions and economic development
Tiemann, Alexa - 2014
Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus drei Aufsätzen, welche verschiedene Dimensionen von Institutionen und wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung untersuchen. Im ersten Aufsatz befassen meine Koautoren und ich uns mit der Reaktion von Firmen auf Handelsliberalisierung bei eingeschränktem Zugang zu...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437035
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742960