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International Trade and Local Outsourcing

Marjit, Sugata; Yang, Lei; Xu, Xinpeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

outsourcing due to the capital cost effect and the scale effect. We also unveil one source of productivity and formalize a link … between trade and productivity. We illustrate that both the scale effect and the flourish of entrepreneurial talent due to … capital cost effect contribute to the improvement of productivity. For the import competing sector the productivity effect and …

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Trade and Sectoral Productivity

Fadinger, Harald; Fleiss, Pablo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Even though differences in sectoral total factor productivity are at the heart of Ricardian trade theory and many … are substantial and far more pronounced in skill and R\&D intensive sectors. We also apply our productivity estimates to …

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I panni di lana: Nascita, espansione e declino dell’industria tessile di lana italiana, 1100-1730

Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This study of the Italian wool-based textile industries (woollens, worsteds, and serges) seeks to examine its rise, expansion, and ultimate decline, over a period of five centuries (from ca. 1200 to ca. 1730) in the context of both international competition and economic conjoncture, in the...

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Investments in physical capital, relationship-specificity, and the property rights approach

Schmitz, Patrick W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We reconsider the property rights approach to the theory of the firm based on incomplete contracts. We explore the implications of different degrees of relationship-specificity when there are two parties, A and B, who can make investments in physical capital (instead of human capital). If...

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Trafficking in drugs and economic theory

Pandey, S.S.D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991

The focus of this study is on black markets which provide an important segment of the parallel economy. These markets operate in disequilibrium,search and information costs become very important.Trafficking in drugs taken as case, to explore both theoretically and empirically. The problem,...

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Productivity Differences in an Interdependent World

Fadinger, Harald - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper studies cross country differences in productivity from an open economy perspective by using a Helpman … human capital than poor ones, while differences in physical capital productivity are not systematically related to income …

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A Short History of the Global Economy Since 1800

Alam, M. Shahid - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003

This paper presents a schematic history of the global economy since 1800. The economic and political logic of global capitalism in this period is defined by its ability to derive a growing share of its energy from fossil fuels. The explosive growth of this period, the dominance of capital, the...

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Competitiveness of Bulgarian Farms in Conditions of EU CAP Implementation

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper suggests a holistic framework for assessing farm competitiveness, and analyses competitiveness of different type of Bulgarian farms during EU CAP implementation. First, it presents a new approach for assessing farm competitiveness defining farm competitiveness and its three criteria...

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Risk Management in Agri-food Chain

Bachev, Hrabrin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper incorporates the interdisciplinary New Institutional Economics and presents a comprehensive framework for analyzing the risk management in agri-food sector. First, it specifies the diverse (natural, technical, behavioral, economic, policy etc.) type of agri-food risks, and the...

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The influence of relational experience and contractual governance on the negotiation strategy in buyer-supplier disputes

Lumineau, Fabrice; Henderson, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper theoretically refines and empirically extends the debate on the type of interplay between relational experience and contractual governance in an under-researched area: supply chain disputes. We define relational experience as either cooperative or competitive; distinguish between...

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