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This paper examines the links between ownership, innovation and exporting in electronics firms in three late … industrializing East Asian countries (China, Thailand and the Philippines) drawing on recent developments in applied international … trade and innovation and learning. Technology-based approaches to trade offer a plausible explanation for firm …
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arguable made the transition to an entrepreneurial economy in which innovation, creativity and high value added in early stage … the opening up of large, populous developing countries such as India, China, and Brazil. Our model predictions are very …
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that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 … transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of … market power in product markets are utilised to undertake innovation. …
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Mobile remittances have a high development potential as they hold the promise of providing quick, easy and cheap money transfers. In Africa mobile phone usage has increased sharply and mobile banking providers are extending their services, enabling greater opportunities for mobile remittances....
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Although intuitively appealing (and common), drawing network strategy implications from empirical evidence of network performance effects in pooled cross-section is not necessarily warranted. This is because network positions can influence both the mean and variance of firm performance....
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The traditional indicators on innovation rely on the linear assumption that research leads to development, centring on … the measurement of inputs and outputs. Based on the traditional innovation indicators, recent studies focused on the … industrial innovation process at Latin America state that nowadays Latin American firms display a passive role at world …
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We use a general equilibrium framework to study optimal health investment in a dynamic model where agents derive utility from consumption and health. The steady state and the dynamics of the model are studied under separable and non-separable preferences. A shock undermining health which...
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institutions in selecting R&D projects (including for both imitation and innovation). Financial development is regarded as the … innovation. However, this regime requires more decentralized decision-making, which in turn depend on contract enforcement. A …
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Business groups are an important aspect of the industrial organization of many developing countries. This paper develops a theory suggesting that they may be organizations that facilitate modernization in the presence of financial market constraints. An important function of the stock market is...
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This paper uses a survey of 3,300 firms in 25 transition countries to shed light on the factors that influence restructuring by firms and their subsequent performance as measured by growth in sales and in sales per employee over a three-year period. We begin by surveying what a decade of...
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