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The nature of corruption : an interdisciplinary perspective
Dimant, Eugen - 2013
impairing everybody's life. This paper provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art survey of existing literature on corruption and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199020
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Technological justice : a G20 agenda
Ortega, Andrés; Pérez, Francisco Andrés; Turianskyi, … - 2018
Technological justice can play an important role within the international system in resolving global challenges and creating a smart and more egalitarian society. Technological and scientific developments are generating huge opportunities for tackling societal challenges. However, the benefits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885372
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Choice of foreign R&D entry mode and impact on firm performance : a firm-level analysis for Switzerland and Austria
Hollenstein, Heinz; Berger, Martin - 2015
The study seeks to identify the determinants of a firm's foreign entry mode choice and the impact of mode selection on firm performance for the specific case of R&D - a topic so far not investigated in entry mode research. Separate estimates of a Heckman selection model for Austria and...
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Social policy targeting and binary information transfer between surveys
Gottlieb, Daniel (contributor); Kushnir, Leonid (contributor) - 2009
In this paper we develop a methodology for identifying a population group surveyed latently in the (target) survey … relevant for further processing, for example poverty calculations, but surveyed explicitly in another (source) survey, not … suitable for such processing. Identification is achieved by transferring the binary information from the source survey to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003816195
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External factors affecting investment decisions of companies
Bialowolski, Piotr; Weziak-Bialowolska, Dorota - 2013
Polish companies. With the use of data from the tailored made Survey on Receivables we examine factors influencing investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009789957
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Banking stability, natural disasters, and political conflicts : time series evidence on causality in developing countries
Rajhi, Wassim; Albuquerque, Pedro H. - 2017
The authors adopt a panel structural VAR modeling approach to model the causal effects of natural disasters and state fragility on aggregate financial system variables such as deposits, non-performing loans, and GDP per capita. They divide the sample by banking sector variable and they develop 8...
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Attracting FDI in middle-skilled supply chains
Moran, Theodore H.; Görg, Holger; Seric̆, Adnan; … - 2018
While popular opinion often pictures FDI flowing in search of lowest-wage, lowest- skilled activities in emerging markets, actual FDI to such countries increasingly addresses medium to high-skilled manufacturing sectors. Such FDI might be called "Quality FDI" that contributes to the creation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011774665
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Export behaviour of SMEs in the Swedish computer service industry
Falk, Martin; Hagsten, Eva - 2015
Export participation of SMEs in Swedish computer services has increased rapidly over the last decade. Despite the increase, export participation rates of SMEs including micro enterprises remain rather low at 13 percent in 2010. Based on uniquely linked firm-level datasets with full coverage of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010491705
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The role of corporate financial structure in the export propensity of manufacturing firms
Miravitlles, Paloma; Mora, Toni; Achcaoucaou, Fariza - 2016
The aim of this study is to analyse the impact of corporate financial structure on a firm's export propensity, especially that of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The paper contributes to the literature concerned with the relationship between exports and financial constraints from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451851
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Innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking
Verdolini, Elena; Bak, Céline; Ruet, Joël; … - 2018
The authors recommend that the G20 target innovative green-technology SMEs as an opportunity to promote financial de-risking while addressing Paris Agreement commitments and UN Sustainable Development Goals. This should be achieved by creating signals for private investors through: (1) a...
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