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This paper analyses the activities developed by groups of companies as purchasers in the Spanish Takeover Bid market from 1983 to 2007. This period is especially interesting due to the reorganization of market quotas caused by the introduction of Spain into the Economic and Monetary Union. The...
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Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
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Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g. transportation costs and financial barriers) have declined over the past 20 years, models that aim to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094463
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This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...
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This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...
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While recent research has explored the phenomenon of drug parallel trade in regulated environments such as the European Union (EU), or the European Economic Area, little is known about the mechanisms that explain its origin or the role of the distribution chain in exporting and importing...
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This paper aims at: i) presenting the evolution and features of the Global Value Chain electronics in the 2000s; and ii) analyzing the general lines of the Vietnam and Malaysia insertion in Global Value Chains (CVG) electronics, seeking to identify the exogenous and endogenous determinants of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011483680
This article analyzes, for the case of Brazil, the structure and the dynamics of two natural resources-based value chains: the poultry and wood furniture chains. The study shows that, in the sectors analyzed, there exist different models of organization of the value chains. Those differences are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433046
This paper furnishes robust evidence that the GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade. The impact has, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports estimated at about 40 percent of world trade. The same...
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