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  • 1
    UID:
    b3kat_BV036692055
    Format: XI, 312 S. , graph. Darst.
    ISBN: 9780262014267 , 9780262514316
    Series Statement: American and comparative environmental policy
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics , Political Science
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    Keywords: Klimaschutz ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 2
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    b3kat_BV048265752
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (63 p)
    Content: Africa's economic performance has been widely viewed with pessimism. This paper uses firm-level data for 89 countries to examine formal firm performance. Without controls, manufacturing African firms do not perform much worse than firms in other regions. But they do have structural problems, exhibiting much lower export intensity and investment rates. Once the analysis controls for geography and the political and business environment, formal African firms robustly lead in sales growth, total factor productivity levels and productivity growth. Africa's conditional advantage is higher in low-tech than in high-tech manufacturing, and exists in manufacturing but not in services. While geography, infrastructure, and access to finance play an important role in explaining Africa's disadvantage in firm performance, the key factor is party monopoly. The longer a single political party remains in power, the lower are firm productivity levels, growth rates, and sales growth for manufacturing. In contrast, the business environment and firm characteristics (except for foreign investment) do not matter as much. The paper also finds evidence that the effects of the political and business environment are heterogeneous across sectors and firms of various levels of technology
    Additional Edition: Harrison, Ann E Explaining Africa's (Dis)advantage
    Language: English
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  • 3
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    b3kat_BV048265199
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (62 p)
    Content: Recent trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms ("stealing") in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements ("learning"). The authors use comprehensive, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate productivity gains during the overall period from 1985 to 2004 were driven largely by improvements in average productivity, which can be attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms
    Additional Edition: Harrison, Ann E Learning versus Stealing
    Language: English
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  • 4
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    b3kat_BV048265192
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (54 p)
    Content: The 1990's dealt a blow to traditional Heckscher-Ohlin analysis of the relationship between trade and income inequality, as it became clear that rising inequality in low-income countries and other features of the data were inconsistent with that model. As a result, economists moved away from trade as a plausible explanation for rising income inequality. In recent years, however, a number of new mechanisms have been explored through which trade can affect(and usually increase) income inequality. These include within-industry effects due to heterogeneous firms; effects of offshoring of tasks; effects on incomplete contracting; and effects of labor-market frictions. A number these mechanisms have received substantial empirical support
    Additional Edition: Harrison, Ann Recent Perspectives on Trade and Inequality
    Language: English
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  • 5
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    b3kat_BV048265190
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (28 p)
    Content: The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it documents the changing global landscape before and after the crisis, emphasizing the shift towards multipolarity. In particular, it emphasizes the ascent of developing countries in the global economy before, during, and after the crisis. Second, it explores what these global economic changes and the recent crisis imply for shifts in the direction of research in development economics. The paper places a particular emphasis on the lessons that developed countries can learn from the developing world
    Additional Edition: Harrison, Ann Learning from Developing Country Experience
    Language: English
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  • 6
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    b3kat_BV048265188
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (57 p)
    Content: The authors link industry-level data on trade and offshoring with individual-level worker data from the Current Population Surveys. They find that occupational exposure to globalization is associated with larger wage effects than industry exposure. This effect has been overlooked because it operates between rather than within sectors of the economy. The authors also find that globalization is associated with a reallocation of workers across sectors and occupations. They estimate wage losses of 2 to 4 percent among workers leaving manufacturing and 4 to 11 percent among workers who also switch occupations. These effects are most pronounced for workers who perform routine tasks
    Additional Edition: Ebenstein, Avraham Estimating the Impact of Trade and Offshoring on American Workers Using the Current Population Surveys
    Language: English
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  • 7
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265187
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: NBER working paper series working paper 16253
    Content: "We identify a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that we hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, we decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union, Indonesia, and the United States. When we aggregate across all products, most of the countries analyzed experienced a decline in new products, a rise in product exit, and falls in quantity for product lines that continued to be traded. The evidence suggests that the intensive rather than extensive margin mattered the most, consistent with studies of other countries and previous recessionary periods. On average, quantities declined and prices fell. However, these average effects mask enormous differences across different products. Price declines were driven primarily by commodities. Within manufacturing, while most quantity changes were negative, in most cases price changes moved in the opposite direction. Consequently, within manufacturing, there is some evidence consistent with the hypothesis that supply side frictions played a role. For the United States, price increases were most significant in sectors which are typically credit constrained"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 9/21/2010
    Additional Edition: Haddad, Mona Decomposing the great trade collapse
    Language: English
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  • 8
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265195
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (66 p)
    Content: The authors investigate how institutions affect productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) to China's domestic industrial enterprises during 1998-2007. They examine three institutional features that comprise aspects of China's "special characteristics": (1) the different sources of FDI, where FDI is nearly evenly divided between mostly Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and Hong Kong (SAR of China), Taiwan (China), and Macau (SAR of China); (2) China's heterogeneous ownership structure, involving state- (SOEs) and non-state owned (non-SOEs) enterprises, firms with foreign equity participation, and non-SOE, domestic firms; and (3) industrial promotion via tariffs or through tax holidays to foreign direct investment. The authors also explore how productivity spillovers from FDI changed with China's entry into the WTO in late 2001. They find robust positive and significant spillovers to domestic firms via backward linkages (the contacts between foreign buyers and local suppliers). The results suggest varied success with industrial promotion policies. Final goods tariffs as well as input tariffs are negatively associated with firm-level productivity. However, they find that productivity spillovers were higher from foreign firms that paid less than the statutory corporate tax rate
    Additional Edition: Du, Luosha Do Institutions Matter for FDI Spillovers?
    Language: English
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  • 9
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048265681
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: NBER working paper series working paper 17532
    Content: "We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, our results suggest that there was no evident increase overall in fixed investment, and employment fell significantly in the treated provinces and sectors. The reform reduced the total number of employees for all types of firms. For domestic firms, it reduced employment by almost 8%. Our results are robust to a variety of approaches, and suggest that the primary impact of the policy has been to induce labor-saving growth. This experiment has since been extended to the rest of China"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site
    Note: Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 1/5/2012
    Additional Edition: Cai, Jing The value-added tax reform puzzle
    Language: English
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  • 10
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048845993
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 458 Seiten) , ill
    ISBN: 9781780527130
    Series Statement: Research in the sociology of organizations v. 36
    Content: The year 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Cohen, March, and Olsen's influential article "The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice", which offered a major new perspective on organizational decision making. To celebrate this enduring paradigm, its impact on our understanding of organizational decision making, and the broad streams of research it has influenced, this collection of papers provides a rich demonstration of the influence that the GCM is continuing to have on current research. The chapters make original contributions to research on organizational decision making by developing new models and theoretical extensions based on or inspired by prior garbage can work, by applying garbage can concepts and interpretations to new problems and novel settings. The year 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the publication of Cohen, March, and Olsen's influential article "The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice", which offered a major new perspective on organizational decision making. To celebrate this enduring paradigm, its impact on our understanding of organizational decision making, and the broad streams of research it has influenced, this collection of papers provides a rich demonstration of the influence that the GCM is continuing to have on current research. The chapters make original contributions to research on organizational decision making by developing new models and theoretical extensions based on or inspired by prior garbage can work, by applying garbage can concepts and interpretations to new problems and novel settings. The book includes a paper from Cohen, March and Olsen, who record their memories of initial encounters with garbage can ideas of organizational decision making, impressions of their current condition, and some thoughts on convolutions they may experience in the years ahead
    Note: The garbage can model of organizational choice : looking forward at forty / Alessandro Lomi, J. Richard Harrison -- 'A garbage can model' at forty : a solution that still attracts problems / Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, Johan P. Olsen -- Turn-taking and geopolitics in the making of decisions / David R. Gibson -- Mechanisms generating context-dependent choices / Jerker Denrell -- Chance, preferences, and predictions in garbage can theory / Jonathan Bendor, Kenneth W. Shotts -- Garbage can ecologies : an agent-based exploration / Guido Fioretti -- Aspects of garbage can processes : temporal order and the role of expediting / Sridhar Seshadri, Zur Shapira -- Garbage can in the lab / Thorbjørn Knudsen, Massimo Warglien, Sangyoon Yi -- Team formation in the garbage can / Klaus G. Troitzsch -- Modeling formal and informal ties within an organization : a multiple model integration / Geoffrey P. Morgan, Kathleen M. Carley -- Situated attention, loose and tight coupling, and the garbage can model / William Ocasio -- Structure, skill, and ambition in organizational problem solving / Thorbjørn Knudsen, Nils Stieglitz, Sangyoon Yi -- From the ivy tower to the C-suite : garbage can processes and corporate strategic decision making / Daniel A. Levinthal -- Organized anarchies and the network dynamics of decision opportunities in an open source software project / Alessandro Lomi, Guido Conaldi, Marco Tonellato -- Organizational decision mechanisms in an architectural competition / Kristian Kreiner -- Geopolitics and garbage cans : understanding the essence of decision making in an interdisciplinary and psycho-cultural perspective / Mie Augier, Jerry Guo
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druckausgabe ISBN 9781785600111
    Language: English
    Subjects: Sociology
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