Browsing by Subject "Business & Economics"

China’s Evolving Role in Global Value Chains: Upgrading Strategies in an Era of Disruptions and Resilience

Gereffi, Gary; Bamber, Penny; Fernandez-Stark, Karina (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

Gereffi, Gary; Bamber, Penny; Fernandez-Stark, Karina (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

GEREFFI, G; KORZENIEWICZ, M (Semiperipheral States in the World-Economy, 1990)

Competing for global capital or local voters? The politics of business location incentives

Jensen, NM; Malesky, EJ; Walsh, M (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

Grabowski, HG (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

Dalzell, NM; Boyd, GA; Reiter, JP (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 ...

Economic and environmental implications of different approaches to hedge against wind production uncertainty in two-settlement electricity markets: A PJM case study

Daraeepour, A; Patino-Echeverri, D; Conejo, AJ (ENERGY ECONOMICS, 2019-05-01)

Firm Growth and Corruption: Empirical Evidence from Vietnam

Bai, J; Jayachandran, S; Malesky, EJ; Olken, BA (The Economic Journal, 2019-02-01)

Horizontal Equity Effects in Energy Regulation

Fischer, C; Pizer, WA (Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2019-03)

Improved reasoning in undergraduate writing through structured workshops

Dowd, JE; Connolly, MP; Thompson, RJ; Reynolds, JA (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

Henderson, Rebecca M.; Newell, R (Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors, 2011-05-30)

“Lies build trust”: Social capital, masculinity, and community-based resource management in a Mexican fishery

Siegelman, B; Haenn, N; Basurto, X (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

Bennett, A; Basurto, X (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

Ansah, JP; Matchar, DB; Koh, V; Schoenenberger, L (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

Grabowski, HG; Kyle, Margaret (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?

Munger, MC (Independent Review, 2018-12-01)

Preference Heterogeneity in the Structural Estimation of Efficient Pigovian Incentives for Insecticide Spraying to Reduce Malaria

Brown, ZS; Kramer, RA (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 ...