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Natural resource dependence and monopolized imports

Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana; Merchán, Federico; … - 2021

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel database for importing firms in developing and emerging market economies, the paper shows that higher natural resource dependence is associated with larger market concentration of...

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Omnia Juncta in Uno : foreign powers and trademark protection in Shanghai's concession era

Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - 2022

We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923 - an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

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Can a Sovereign Protect Investors from Itself? Tribal Institutions to Spur Reservation Investment

Haddock, David D. - 2012

A bilateral danger of underperformance exists when two parties sink investments with payoffs dependent on the behavior of the other. There are five general categories of defense against that danger: (1) Legal action against a misbehaving co-investor; (2) Reliance on a reputation for...

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Memory, Transaction Records, and The Wealth of Nations

Basu, Sudipta - 2014

intuition is that extensive impersonal exchange requires reliable memory of trading partners' past behavior to sustain trust and …

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Omnia Juncta in Uno : Foreign Powers and Trademark Protection in Shanghai's Concession Era

Alfaro, Laura; Bao, Ge; Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Hong, Junjie - 2022

We investigate how firms adapt to trademark protection, an extensively used but underexamined form of IP protection, by exploring a historical precedent: China’s trademark law of 1923—an unanticipated and disapproved response to end foreign privileges in China. By exploiting a unique, newly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306852

Financial crisis, economic recovery and banking development in former Soviet Union economies

Marin, Dalia; Huang, Haizhou; Xu, Chenggang - 2002 - First Draft: September 2000, This Draft: September 2002

This paper provides a unified theory to explain the onset of the financial crisis in 1998 and the striking economic … recovery in Russia and the former Soviet Union afterwards. Before the crisis, the banking sector in these economies was stuck … collapse of the treasury bills market in Russia in the financial crisis of 1998 reversed this process and thus acted as a …

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Debt crisis in Russia and Kazakstan : an impediment for the transition process?

Sauer, Thomas (ed.) - ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 1998

Wirtschaftswissenschaftler aus Rußland, Kasachstan, Großbritannien und Deutschland Aufsätze zu dem Thema "Die Schuldenkrise in Rußland und …

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The Effect of Business Group Affiliation on Trade Credit Financing : An Empirical Analysis of Public Firms in Korea

Chong, Byung-Uk - 2020

This paper examines how trade credit demand and supply are determined in Korea, where large business groups are dominant in most of the segments and hierarchies of many industries. In particular, we investigate the effects of business group affiliation on trade credit financing, finding that a...

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My real avatar has a doctor appointment in the wepital : a system for persistent, efficient, and ubiquitous medical care

Zahedi, Fatemeh Mariam; Huimin, Zhao; Sanvanson, Patrick; … - In: Information & management : the internat. journal of … 59 (2022) 8, pp. 1-25

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Trust, efficient contracting and export upgrading

Ndubuisi, Gideon Onyewuchi; Owusu, Solomon - In: The European journal of development research 34 (2022) 6, pp. 2708–2729

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