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Outsourcing motives, competitiveness and taxation

König, Jan - 2010

This paper shows the strategic aspects of international outsourcing in an oligopolistic market, if outsourcing is attractive because of fixed cost savings. We show that outsourcing decisions are strategic substitutes. Furthermore, we demonstrate that due to decreasing individual output,...

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Monetary policy transmission to Russia & Eastern Europe

Stann, Carsten M.; Grigoriadis, Theocharis - 2019

spillover effects in Russia and Eastern Europe. The hypothesis is tested using OLS estimations of event-based regressions on … monetary policy event dummies and seven financial variables in eleven East European countries including Russia. Overall, the … Europe and Russia. Notably, bilateral integration with the eurozone is a key determinant of the strength of spillovers, with …

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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited

Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

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Political consequences of consumer debt relief

Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine - 2022

We study consumer debt relief as a tool of distributive politics and ask if debt relief can influence elections. We utilize quasi-experimental variation generated by a very large debt relief program enacted in the Republic of Georgia by a private foundation that affected every sixth voter. We...

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Longevity and patience

Falk, Armin; Hermle, Johannes; Sunde, Uwe - 2019

Why does patience vary across individuals and countries? We provide evidence on a widely-hypothesized mechanism, namely that higher longevity fosters patience. Using data on patience for 80,000 individuals in 76 countries, this paper relates exogenous variation in longevity across...

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Technological learning systems, competitiveness and development

Viotti, Eduardo Baumgratz - 2015

This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of the main specificities of latecomers' processes of technological development. Building on the basis of this understanding, it searches for the reasons why the conventional measures of Science and Technology (S&T) policies, usually inspired by...

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How does democracy cause growth?

Boese-Schlosser, Vanessa; Eberhardt, Markus - 2023 - This version: July 6th, 2023

Recent empirical work has established that 'democracy causes growth'. In this paper, we determine the underlying institutions which drive this relationship using data from the Varieties of Democracy project. We sketch how incentives and opportunities as well as the distribution of political...

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R&D investment under financing constraints

Giebel, Marek; Kraft, Kornelius - 2020

This paper tests for the sensitivity of R&D to financing constraints conditional on restrictions in external financing. Financing constraints of firms are identified by an exogenously calculated rating index. Restrictions in external financing are determined by (i) the specific time period...

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Banks' complexity-risk nexus and the role of regulation

Martynova, Natalya; Vogel, Ursula - 2021

We investigate the relationship between bank complexity and bank risk-taking using German banking data over the period 2005-2017. We find that more complex banking organizations tend to take on more risk, but that this complexity-risk nexus decreases over time. We study how regulatory...

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