Browsing by Subject "Business & Economics"
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China’s Evolving Role in Global Value Chains: Upgrading Strategies in an Era of Disruptions and Resilience
(2022-09-17)China’s role in global value chains (GVCs) has changed fundamentally in recent decades. The country has moved from being the world factory for a diverse range of low-tech, mid-tech, and high-tech consumer goods to the goal ... -
China’s New Development Strategies Upgrading from Above and from Below in Global Value Chains
(2022-11-07)This book examines China’s new development policies, which seek to reposition China from export platform for a diverse array of low-cost consumer goods to technological leader in sectors linked to advanced manufacturing, ... -
Commodity chains and footwear exports in the semiperiphery
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Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives
(Public Choice, 2015-09)© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. The competition for global capital has led to interjurisdictional competition between countries, states and cities as to who can offer the most attractive incentives to firms. ... -
Competition between Generic and Branded Drugs
(Pharmaceutical innovation: incentives, competition, and cost-benefit analysis in international perspective, 2007-04-30)The pharmaceutical industry worldwide is a rapidly burgeoning industry contributing to growth of gross domestic product and employment. Technological change in this field has been very rapid, with many new products being ... -
Creating linked datasets for SME energy-assessment evidence-building: Results from the U.S. Industrial Assessment Center Program
(Energy Policy, 2017-12-01)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Lack of information is commonly cited as a market failure resulting in an energy-efficiency gap. Government information policies to fill this gap may enable improvements in energy efficiency and social ... -
Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam
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Horizontal Equity Effects in Energy Regulation
(Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019-03) -
Improved reasoning in undergraduate writing through structured workshops
(Journal of Economic Education, 2015-01-01)© 2015 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. The Department of Economics at Duke University has endeavored to increase participation in undergraduate honors thesis research while ensuring a high-quality learning experience. Given ... -
Introduction and Summary
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“Lies build trust”: Social capital, masculinity, and community-based resource management in a Mexican fishery
(World Development, 2019-11-01)© 2019 Elsevier Ltd This paper relates how fishermen in San Evaristo on Mexico's Baja peninsula employ fabrications to strengthen bonds of trust and navigate the complexities of common pool resource extraction. We argue ... -
Local Institutional Responses to Global Market Pressures: The Sea Cucumber Trade in Yucatán, Mexico
(World Development, 2018-02-01)© 2017 Elsevier Ltd The expansion of global seafood trade creates opportunities as well as risks for small-scale fisheries (SSFs) livelihoods. Markets provide economic opportunity, but without effective governance, high ... -
Mapping the Dynamic Complexity of Chronic Disease Care in Singapore: Using Group Model Building in Knowledge Elicitation
(Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 2018-11-01)This study describes a group model building exercise that aims to develop a deeper understanding of the dynamic complexity of chronic disease care delivery within a primary care setting in Singapore, leveraging on the insights ... -
Mergers and Alliances in Pharmaceutical: Effects on Innovation and R&D Productivity
(The Economics of Corporate Governance and Mergers, 2008-01-01)This book provides an insightful view of major issues in the economics of corporate governance (CG) and mergers. It presents a systematic update on the developments in the two fields during the last decade, as well ... -
On the origins and goals of public choice: Constitutional conspiracy?
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Preference Heterogeneity in the Structural Estimation of Efficient Pigovian Incentives for Insecticide Spraying to Reduce Malaria
(Environmental and Resource Economics, 2017-01-18)This paper bridges the theoretical and empirical literatures on the role of preference heterogeneity in characterizing externalities related to disease transmission. We use a theoretical structure similar to locational sorting ... -
Product Liability in Pharmaceuticals: Comments on Chapters Eight and Nine
(The Liability Maze: The Impact of Liability Law on Safety and Innovation, 1991)With an ever-increasing number of liability lawsuits, are corporations electing to play it safe rather than risk the uncertainties accompanying innovation? In The Liability Maze experts address the issues surrounding safety ... -
Projecting the Number of Elderly with Cognitive Impairment in China Using a Multi-State Dynamic Population Model
(System Dynamics Review, 2017-04-01)China is aging rapidly, and the number of Chinese elderly with dementia is expected to rise. This paper projects, up to year 2060, the number of Chinese elderly within four distinct cognitive states. A multi-state population ... -
Structural Effects of Regulation on Innovation in the Ethical Drug Industry
(Essays on industrial organization, in honor of Joe S. Bain, 1976)