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- Agglomeration Economies And The Location Of Foreign Direct Investment
- Romania experienced a large inflow of FDI Foreign Direct Investment after the revolution in 1989. This was exploited in order to study the importance of agglomeration economies for the location of FDI. Using a conditional logit setup, it was found that external economies from industry-specific foreign agglomeration and service agglomeration...
- White papers 2006-11-22
- Public Policy, Early-Stage Financing, And Firm Growth In New Industries
- Does Europe have too few fast-growing companies in new (hi-tech) industries compared to the US? And if so, why? While Europe has seen a vast increase in early-stage financing, financiers with specific industry expertise seem to be still relatively scarce. This may engender a serious information gap between entrepreneurs and...
- White papers 2006-09-17
- Trade Liberalization And Industrial Restructuring Through Mergers And Acquisitions
- This paper analyzes Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) as a previously neglected channel of industrial restructuring in the face of trade liberalization. Using the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 as a natural experiment, the author shows that trade liberalization leads to a significant increase in M&A activity. He also...
- White papers 2006-03-01
- Dynamic Financial Risk Management
- For many years, financial markets have been part of people's everyday life. Information on the major securities can be found easily in the daily press or on internet. The different actors of the economy look closely at some fundamental parameters, such as interest rates, currency rates, stock prices..., which may...
- White papers 2005-12-08
- Superstars And Renaissance Men: Specialization, Market Size And The Income Distribution
- A general equilibrium model of individual specialization is presented in which agents trade off the productivity and price implications of producing a narrower range of goods. Agents with highly specific skills turn out to benefit most from large markets. The model is able to replicate features of the long-term evolution...
- White papers 2005-11-01
- Ex Post Versus Ex Ante Measures Of The User Cost Of Capital
- When doing growth accounting, should we use ex post or ex ante measures of user costs to calculate the contribution of capital? The answer, based on a simple model of temporary equilibrium, is that ex post is better in theory. In practice researchers usually calculate ex post user costs by...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Do Bilateral Investment Treaties Increase Foreign Direct Investment To Developing Countries?
- Foreign investors are often skeptical toward the quality of the domestic institutions and the enforceability of the law in developing countries. Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT's) guarantee certain standards of treatment that can be enforced via binding investor-to-state dispute settlement outside the domestic juridical system. Developing countries accept restrictions on their...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Computing The True Spread
- How much of the observed labour productivity spread is real? This paper proposes a novel framework to calculate productivity differences between plants accounting for imperfect competition, variations in output prices across plants, endogeneity of factor inputs and measurement error in labour inputs. For UK manufacturing as a whole the author...
- White papers 2005-05-01
- Managerial Incentives, Uncertainty And Ownership Concentration
- This paper proposes a simple model of the managerial corporation. By rooting the conflicts of interests between managers and shareholders upon the control of internal funds, paper investigates the link between profit uncertainty, growth options and decisional powers. The model has implications for the optimal degree of equity concentration, the...
- White papers 2005-04-29
- Trade Openness, Foreign Direct Investment And Child Labor
- The skeptics of globalization argue that increased trade openness and foreign direct investment induce developing countries to keep labor costs low, for example, by letting children work. This paper argues that there are good theoretical reasons why globalization might actually have the opposite effect. This is tested with various measures...
- White papers 2004-12-21
- Modernisation, Partnerships And The Management Of Risk
- The terms 'Modernisation' and 'Partnership' are fundamental to an ongoing transformation of the contemporary political lexicon in Britain. If modernisation and partnership go hand in hand, then a third term - risk - completes the triptych that brings the abstract schemes of the reformers into contact with the mechanics of...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Closed And Open Economy Models Of Business Cycles With Marked Up And Sticky Prices
- Shifts in the extent of competition, which affect markup ratios, are possible sources of aggregate business fluctuations. Markups are countercyclical, and booms are times at which the economy operates more efficiently. It begins with a real model in which markup ratios correspond to the prices of differentiated intermediate inputs relative...
- White papers 2004-10-13
- Life Insurance Mathematics
- The subject matter and methodology of modern life insurance mathematics are surveyed in this paper. Standard insurance products with payments depending only on life history events are described and analyzed in the commonly used Markov chain model under the assumption of deterministic interest rates. The actuarial equivalence principle for determining...
- White papers 2004-02-23
- Aggregate Collateral In A Dynamic Perspective
- The line has been operational full time since, while the firm at the same time carried on its main business. These examples beg the question: why should firms capable of producing. This paper attempts to provide an explanation to this phenomenon based on implications of specificity for equilibrium contractual arrangements...
- White papers 2003-09-29
- Quantifying The Contribution Of Technological Change To Economic Growth In Different Eras
- A formidable array of historical growth accounting studies has been conducted and the conventional methodology is firmly established as a valuable diagnostic tool. A number of important lessons have become apparent but new research issues have also emerged. Two main messages should be heeded. First, the estimate of TFP (Total...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Endogenous Risk
- Endogenous risk refers to the risk from shocks that are generated and amplified within the system. It stands in contrast to exogenous risk, which refers to shocks that arrive from outside the system. Financial markets are subject to both types of risk. However, the greatest damage is done from risk...
- White papers 2002-09-21
- Pricing Catastrophe Insurance Derivatives
- This paper investigates the valuation of catastrophe insurance derivatives that are traded at the Chicago Board of Trade. By modelling the underlying index as compound Poisson process, the paper gives a representation of no-arbitrage price processes using Fourier analysis. This characterization enables us to derive inverse Fourier transform of prices...
- White papers 2001-05-01
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- Aries Maritime Appoints New Chief Financial Officer
- Completes Sale of Three Vessels ATHENS, June 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aries Maritime Transport Limited today announced it has appointed Ioannis Makris as the Company's Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Makris, 40, has approximately 15 years of experience in finance and shipping. Previously, he...
- Articles 2008-06-12
- Governing finance; East Asia's adoption of international standards
- Governing finance; East Asia's adoption of international standards. Walter, Andrew. Cornell U. Press 2008 235 pages $35.00 Hardcover Cornell studies in money HG187 When the economies of Asian nations went sour in...
- Articles 2008-05-01
- Two-sector model of general equilibrium
- Two-sector model of general equilibrium. (reprint, 1971) Johnson, Harry G. AldineTransaction 2007 118 pages $18.95 Paperback HB74 This classic treatment was the first to provide in condensed form the theory of general equilibrium and...
- Articles 2008-05-01
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