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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Foreign competition"”.
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PRIVATIZATION POLICY UNDER FOREIGN COMPETITION AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN CHINA
This paper investigates the role of foreign competition and regional unemployment in influencing privatization policy for domestic firms. With a general model specifying the existence of foreign competition and regional unemployment, we find a negative relationship between presence of foreign …
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Import Competition and Domestic Bankruptcy; The Impact of Industry Structure
… domestic industries are often attributed to foreign competition.
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PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR PRODUCT INNOVATING R&D IN A GAME-THEORETIC SETTING
… when it does not. The second chapter introduces foreign competition in a goods market, and analyzes the effects of foreign competition on domestic private and public incentives to product innovate. Government uses matching grant programs to aid private attempts to develop new goods. The …
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THE CEMENT OF INTEREST: INTERSTATE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENTS, INTERSTATE COMMERCE, AND THE TRANSITION FROM THE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION TO THE CONSTITUTION, 1783-1786
… impeded domestic commerce and free trade with foreign countries threatened to undermine America’s economic independence. These two problems suggested a dual solution: free and equal trade within the U.S. and a national tariff to protect American industries from foreign competition. When …
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Essays on international trade policy and international outsourcing
… how lobbies are formed when protection from foreign competition represents a public good. This chapter offers different criteria that lobby formation might obey and analyzes the impact of the characteristics of the distribution of firm size on the level of protection of industrial sectors. …
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Essays in macroeconomics
… to intermediate supplies and through tougher foreign competition. In particular, both effects are significant: while the first boosts growth the second one hinders it. Moreover, the effect of the first channel outweighs the effect of the second one. The second essay is an empirical analysis …
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The Sacrifices of the American Textile Industry and the Common Good
… industry. Considering the thousands affected by foreign competition and the pleading letters sent to congressional offices between 1984 and 1994, it is apparent that southern politicians acted in the best interest of the textile community and their notion of the common good. U.S. Representative …
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Bradford Mills at Marki, Warsaw: A Case Study of British Entrepreneurship in Russian Poland 1883 – 1914
… merchant Ernst Posselt, and their subsequent foreign direct investment in a modern factory and workers’ community at Marki, near Warsaw, in Russian Poland. Protectionism and increasing foreign competition are discussed, among many complex economic pressures on British industry, as likely …
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Technical barriers to trade for the importation of Australian veterinary biological vaccines to the European Union
… appear to protect domestic producers from foreign competition, by, at the very least, frustrating market access through a myriad of committees and technical requirements designed to retard market penetration. The EU regulations, therefore, appear to have negatively impacted on trade flows. …
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Exploring the stimulation of the agri-food system of South Africa through the enhancement of entrepreneurship in agriculture
… and electricity; poor infrastructure; increased foreign competition; insufficient access to funding and markets resulting in a high failure rate in agricultural entrepreneurship; and a depreciating and fluctuating exchange rate. This study aims to explore and contribute to the understanding of …
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The estimation of the degree of pricing competition in the British Columbia wine industry (1957-1986)
… oligopolistic; and (2) protection from foreign competition was afforded by the British Columbia government in the form of a wine policy that effectively created non-tariff trade barriers against foreign wine producers. This study econometrically tests the hypothesis that British Columbia …
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The motor industry development programme and local content: has the MIDP's objective of increasing the local sourcing of components been achieved?
… competitiveness by the introduction of foreign competition and assistance for exporting. This dissertation investigates whether the MIDP has increased value added or local content in locally manufactured motor vehicles, as anticipated by policy makers. The findings in this dissertation …
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Time-Based Manufacturing System Design for Softwood Lumber Production
… continue to experience increasing pressure from foreign competition. Through decreasing product lead time, U.S. manufacturers can achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. Southern yellow pine manufacturing is an example of an industry that can benefit from product lead time reduction. This …
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Pull Manufacturing System Design for Rough Mill Systems: A Case Study
… their competitive edge in the global economy. Foreign competition is steadily gaining market-share due to decreased labor costs. While domestic operations can not compete with labor costs available to foreign manufacturers, they may be able to remain competitive through product lead time …
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Corporate ethnographpy [i.e. ethnography]: an analysis of organizational and technological innovation
… innovative to renew their business and ward off foreign competition. The perceived weakening of this process in U.S. firms is viewed as a contributing factor in the steady decline of productivity growth vital to our nation's stability. The specific purpose of this study was to analyze the …
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Will Globalization Play in Peoria? Class, Race, and Nation in the Global Economy, 1948-2000
… systems, and without through intensified foreign competition. Plant closings and technological changes such as computerization and automation jeopardized working-class prospects for upward mobility through manual labor. Once-dominant labor unions in manufacturing industries such as …
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Essays in empirical corporate finance and banking
… Network"" studies the causal effect of foreign competition on corporate investment, cash holdings, financing and leverage decisions using the lift of the trade embargo against Vietnam as an exogenous shock to product market competition. I exploit the random allocation of Vietnamese …
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Innovation and economic growth in two perspectives: Social capital and social protection policies
… rates, social protection, or protection from foreign competition through barriers to technology adoption. In addition, each type of policy has a differential effect on different components of TFP growth. I use a panel of countries to test whether these differential effects are supported by …
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Essays on Macroeconomics and International Trade
… mix raises its capability growth, and (ii) foreign competition is tougher in less complex sectors for all countries. Empirically, we provide causal evidence consistent with (i) using the entry of countries into the World Trade Organization as an instrumental variable for other countries’ …
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Essays on Firms in International Trade
… how firms adjust their technology investment to foreign competition and demand, and how firm performance is affected by a global trade policy shock. And I investigate the dynamics of firms’ choices of invoicing currencies for exports over time. My first chapter studies how the choices of …
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