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For how long does cultural heritage persist? Do the culturally inherited values of immigrants dilute as generations pass? We answer these question by studying the relationship between revealed political behavior of immigrant families and the culture of the place where they migrated from, either...
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"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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This paper sheds new light on the assessment of firm networks via multiple directorships in terms of corporate firm performance. Using a large sample of European listed firms in the period from 2003 to 2011 and system GMM we find a significant compensation effect on corporate firm performance...
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Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but … achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique of Brazil’s strategy in terms of economic statecraft; reflect on … enhance Brazil’s leadership role at the regional and global levels. It would involve the Brazilian government and business …
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emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico, which are not only top recipients of foreign capital … been the eruption of world-class Latin multinationals (or multilatinas) from Mexico and Brazil, in particular, following …
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This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …
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The paper presents an empirical analysis of the innovative activities of business groups in Latin America. It compares the innovativeness of group-affiliated firms (GAFs) and standalone firms (SAFs), and it investigates how country-specific institutional factors – financial, legal, and labor...
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presents an empirical study of Wall Street analysts’ perceptions of the 2002 presidential elections in Brazil, based on reports …
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The recent boom and bust in commodity prices has raised concerns about the impact of volatile commodity prices on Latin American countries’ fiscal positions. Using a novel quarterly dataset─ which includes unique country specific commodity price indices and a comprehensive measure of public...
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Moravia Silesia region of the Czech Republic passes through deep restructuring of traditional industries accompanied by huge unemployment. Clustering seems to be one of the ways out of current transformation in the region´s development. After the introduction to the cluster theory a methodology...
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