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team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments – which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through …
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Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
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This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
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Using Local Labour Systems (LLSs) data, this work aims at assessing the effects of sectoral shifts and industry specialization patterns on regional unemployment in Italy over the years 2004-2008, when huge worker reallocation caused by changes in the international division of labour occurred....
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This paper presents the results of a field study at a large financial services firm that combines multiple methods, including two economic experiments, to measure ethical norms and their behavioral correlates. Standard survey questions eliciting ethical evaluations of actions in on-the-job...
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This paper argues that the level of financial services provision determines the risk management strategies among the poor. The paper estimates the determinants of the household’s use of one, two or all three types of microfinancial services applying ordered probit models and additionally...
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We exploit organizational reforms in a foreign-owned bank in Central-East Europe to study the implementation of modern …
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The key dynamics of the transatlantic banking crisis are analyzed – with emphasis on the fact that the banking disaster …/OECD banking sector are highlighted. Most important, however, is the introduction of a new tax regime designed to encourage bankers …
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Financial inclusion is the broad based delivery of banking and other financial services at affordable cost to the … access to bank accounts. The present study investigates the drive to financial inclusion in the form of the growth in bank … bank accounts is not significantly associated with the reduction in below poverty line population across states. Providing …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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