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Options for Export Diversification and Faster Export Growth in Ghana

Chandra, Vandana; Osorio-Rodarte, Israel - 2013

This paper discusses how Ghana’s path to a middle income status does not have to be paved with only manufactured products. There are multiple paths and processed natural resources-based products are not necessarily a curse, and if Ghana wants and it builds the requisite capacity, it can turn...

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Doing Business in Mexico

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

On 1 July 2001, a far-reaching free trade agreement between the EFTA States and Mexico entered into force. ”Doing Business in Mexico” provides targeted assistance to Swiss Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SME) that wish to tap the potential of Mexico as both an export destination and...

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Strategic Subsidy Policies with Endogenous Choice of Competition Mode

Lim, Seonyoung; Choi, Kangsik - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate government subsidy policies in which a home firm and a foreign firm choose to strategically set prices … governments under subsidy regime, Cournot competition is more efficient than Bertrand competition when the goods are substitutes … Pareto superior (inferior) with government's intervention of subsidy policy when the goods are substitutes (complements …

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Patent statistics: a good indicator for innovation in China? Assessment of impacts of patent subsidy programs on patent quality

Dang, Jangwei; Motohashi, Kazuyuki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper investigates whether patent subsidy programs aimed at promoting regional innovations have aroused a large … or low value. However, the patent subsidy programs does not affect the trend of granted patents, particularly for those …

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Environmental Policy to Foster a Green Differentiated Energy Market

Gutierrez-Hita, Carlos; Martinez-Sanchez, Francisco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

Many products are made by technological processes that cause environmental damage. Current environmental concerns are affecting firms' technological processes as a result of government intervention in markets but also due to environmental awareness on the part of consumers. This paper assumes a...

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Impact of Improved Maize Adoption on Welfare of Farm Households in Malawi: A Panel Data Analysis

Bezu, Sosina; Kassie, Girma; Shiferaw, Bekele; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

endogeneity of input subsidy and improved maize adoption. We found that modern maize variety adoption is positively correlated …

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Nudging parental health behavior with and without children's pestering power: Fat tax, subsidy or both?

Papoutsi, Georgia; Nayga, Rodolfo; Lazaridis, Panagiotis; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

. Results from our lab experiment suggest that (a) implementing a fat tax and a subsidy simultaneously can nudge parents to …

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Strategic Trade Policies in International Rivalry When Competition Mode is Endogenous

Choi, Kangsik; Lee, Ki-Dong; Lim, Seonyoung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

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Strategic Trade Policies with Endogenous Choice of Competition Mode under a Vertical Structure

Choi, Kangsik; Lim, Seonyoung - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

subsidy under Bertrand competition; and (iii) when the choice of competition mode is delegated to upstream firms or to the …

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The impact of scrappage programs on the demand for new vehicles: Evidence from Spain

Cantos-Sánchez, Pedro; Gutiérrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

We evaluate the impact of the Spanish car scrappage program introduced in May 2009 on short-run car purchases. The scrappage program was simultaneously discussed and implemented, and was therefore exogenous to the consumers. We analyse the effect of this program on household new car purchase...

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