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Environmental regulation, comparative advantage and the Porter hypothesis

Albrecht, Johan - 1998

Empirical surveys find no significant impact of environmental regulation and environmental costs on international competitiveness. In the literature, we can find three hypotheses on the impact of environmental regulation. For the industrial-flight and pollution-haven hypothesis, there is no...

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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - 2012

The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way contract enforcement institutions determine international trade...

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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage, Complex Goods and Organizational Choice

Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - 2011

The theory of the firm suggests that firms can respond to poor contract enforcement by vertically integrating their production process. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether firms' integration opportunities affect the way institutions determine international trade patterns. We find...

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Comparative advantage, multi-product firms and trade liberalisation: An empirical test

Fuss, Catherine; Zhu, Linke - 2012

This paper investigates how economies of scope in multi-product firms interact with comparative advantage in determining the effect of trade liberalisation on resource reallocation, using Belgian manufacturing firm- and firm-product-level data over the period 1997-2007. We first provide evidence...

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Can Horticulture be a Success Story for India?

Mittal, Surabhi - 2007

India is the second largest producer of the fruits and vegetables in the world after China. Since the 1980s the … producers of fruits and vegetables in the world, the export competitiveness among the Indian producers remains low. But with new …, yield gaps and huge logistic costs affect our competitive and comparative advantage in world trade market. In this study the …

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Empirical Relevance of the Hillman Condition and Comparative Advantage

Hinloopen, Jeroen; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2004

Hillman condition for virtually all countries of the world, over an extended period of time, for many sectors, and for … be substantial as a share of the value of world exports. Measured either way, violations occurred much more frequently in …

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Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions: On Revealed Comparative Advantage And Merger Waves

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2007

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2007) general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) model (incorporating strategic interaction between firms in a general equilibrium...

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Environmental policy and industrial competitiveness: The pollution haven hypothesis reconsidered

Bommer, Rolf - 1995

The Pollution-Haven Hypothesis suggests that tight environmental standards reduce domestic producers' competitiveness and give rise to their relocating to countries with more lenient standards. This paper questions that relocation is always caused by reduced competitiveness at home. By using a...

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Comparative advantage, cross-border mergers and merger waves: International economics meets industrial organization

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - In: CESifo Forum 07 (2006) 1, pp. 22-26

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The determinants of trade survival

Fugazza, Marco; Molina, Ana Cristina - 2009

The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of trade duration across regions and to identify its determinants. Using an extended Cox model, we evaluate the effects of country and product characteristics, as well as of trade cost variables on the duration of trade relationships from 96...

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