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We propose a model of the European gas market where the risk that Russian deliveries are interrupted is endogenized. While Russia's attempts to buy considerable parts of the European downstream industry have faced strong political opposition, we argue that Russian participation in the downstream...
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An extensive empirical literature has documented the positive growth effects of equity market liberalization. However, this line of research ignores the impact of financial integration on a category of firms crucial for economic development, i.e. the small entrepreneurial firms. This paper aims...
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This paper uses representative firm level panel data of 1,701 Bulgarian and 2,047 Romanian manufacturing firms to estimate market power (i.e. price-cost margins) and to analyze how these are affected by privatization and increased competitive pressure. In contrast to earlier work that analyzes...
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effects of increased import competition are reinforced for foreign owned firms. In contrast, in Bulgaria and Romania …
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This paper adopts sociometric analysis to explore the process of knowledge acquisition and diffusion in clusters of … firms. By comparing the knowledge systems of two clusters selected for being at different stages of their development path … across and within clusters and the impact of this latter variable on the degree of intra- and extra-cluster connectivity is …
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The question of the spatial impacts of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has animated the intellectual and policy debate for a long time. At the beginning of the 1990s the rise of the Internet brought a new surge of debate: it was argued that the Internet would free the economy...
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.e., agility, resilience, and sustainability. The principal ideas of the VSC model are adaptable structural SC designs for supply … changes (i.e., the agility angle) and be able to absorb negative disturbances, recover and survive during short …
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important, internal political dynamics, particularly intra-ruling-elite competition, explain the performance of the …
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Slovenia regarding agility and the adoption of AI tech - nologies. The results highlight areas where small businesses may need … additional support or targeted strategies to fully leverage the benefits of agility and AI. Policymakers and industry leaders can … utilize these findings to promote tailored approaches that enhance agility and facilitate effective AI integration in both …
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assumption that agglomeration advantages tend to occur within regional clusters rather than within single industries. However …
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