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Riaz, Bushra. "Comparative advantage, Exports and Economic Growth." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9376.

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This study investigates the causal relationship among comparative advantage, exports and economic growth by using the time series annual data for the period of 1980-2009 on 13 developing countries. The purpose is to develop an understanding of causal relationship and explore the differences or similarities among different sectors of several developing countries that are in different stages of development and how their comparative advantage influences the exports, which further effect the economic growth of the country. The co-integration and the vector error correction techniques are used to e

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Augusteijn, Michael J. (Michael James) 1974. "Extended producer responsibility and comparative advantage." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9560.

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Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Technology and Policy Program, 1999.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 110-114).<br>Extended producer responsibility is a business strategy whereby a firm assumes responsibility for the environmental impacts of a product throughout its entire lifecycle. By taking such responsibility, a firm realizes an incentive to design environmentally preferable products that are easier to recycle, reuse, or re-manufacture. Many extended producer responsibility strategies involve product take-back, whereby the produce

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Ornelas, Rafael Amaral. "Comparative advantage, heterogeneous firms and variable mark-ups." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/12094.

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Kalbasi, Hassan. "Trade flows and comparative advantage for Iran." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1995. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/7004.

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This thesis has three objectives. First, the thesis evaluates the alternative indirect methods of measuring or identifying Iran's comparative advantage through revealed trade performance. Secondly, it seeks to identify Iran's export potential by considering similar and comparable economies. Thirdly, it explores the potential volume and direction of fran's trade flows by using a gravity model. The thesis primarily provides a review and an evaluation of the theory and empirical robustness of the law of comparative advantage. The application of indirect methods proves to be useful in identifying

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Bellak, Christian. "Gaining and losing competitive advantage." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2003. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1414/1/document.pdf.

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Efficient policies to stimulate the competitiveness of firms require knowledge of future firm-strategies and a proper assessment of the location advantages of a country or region. Therefore, industry comparative advantage analysis needs to be complemented by firm competitive advantage analysis. This yields four hypotheses of firm strategies on the basis of the existing advantage combination. Detailed empirical analysis of a representative sample of Austrian manufacturing firms during 1990- 2000 shows that changes in employment, value-added and exports are in line with the suggested development

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Åkerborg, Örjan. "Taking advantage of phylogenetic trees in comparative genomics." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Beräkningsbiologi, CB, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4757.

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Phylogenomics can be regarded as evolution and genomics in co-operation. Various kinds of evolutionary studies, gene family analysis among them, demand access to genome-scale datasets. But it is also clear that many genomics studies, such as assignment of gene function, are much improved by evolutionary analysis. The work leading to this thesis is a contribution to the phylogenomics field. We have used phylogenetic relationships between species in genome-scale searches for two intriguing genomic features, namely and A-to-I RNA editing. In the first case we used pairwise species comparisons, sp

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Åkerborg, Örjan. "Taking advantage of phylogenetic trees in comparative genomics /." Stockholm : School of Computer Science and Communication, Kungliga tekniska högskolan, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-4757.

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Cukrowski, Jacek, and Manfred M. Fischer. "Theory of Comparative Advantage: Do Transportation Costs Matter?" WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2000. http://epub.wu.ac.at/4244/1/WGI_DP_6900.pdf.

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The paper presents a formal analysis which incorporates returns to transportation into a Ricardian framework to predict trade patterns. The important point to be gained from this analysis is that increasing returns to transportation, coupled with appropriate distances between trading partners can be shown to reverse Ricardian predictions even when there are no international differences in tastes, technology, or factor endowments. Additional gains from trade may emerge from reductions in aggregate delivery costs owing to scale economies. (authors' abstract)<br>Series: Discussion Papers of the I

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Lai, Lap-tak. "HongKong advantage as an international telecom hub /." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B19877900.

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Tan, Lin Yeok. "An analysis of Singapore's dynamic comparative advantage, 1970-83." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.305163.

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Nkurunziza, Benjamin. "Determining Rwanda's comparative advantage in rice : Eastern Province case study." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/98136.

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Thesis (MScAgric)--Stellenbosch University, 2015.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: As agriculture remains the economic engine of rural Africa, reducing poverty in Africa will depend largely on stimulating agricultural growth. To realize this growth, the efficient allocation of a country’s scarce natural resources becomes a prerequisite. Rwanda is endowed with extensive wetlands with a high potential for rice production due to its hilly topography, abundant rainfall, and warm temperatures. However, many of these wetlands remain uncultivated despite the prevailing rice deficit in the domestic and regio

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Bellak, Christian. "Explaining foreign ownership by comparative and competitive advantage. Empirical evidence." Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/96/1/document.pdf.

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This paper provides empirical evidence on the determinants of foreign ownership in manufacturing industries. Foreign ownership, according to the theory of international production, is the result of the combination of comparative and competitive advantage. An adequate examination of the ownership structure of an industry requires the ability to establish empirically the extent to which international competitiveness of firms rests on comparative and competitive advantage. Analysis is based on a sample of the 30 largest manufacturing firms in Austria. The distinction and definition of comparative

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Joseph, Brian A. "Tourism and economic development in the Caribbean comparative advantage deferred /." Laramie, Wyo. : University of Wyoming, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1313917941&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=18949&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Paquin, Hugo. "Canada's Trade Strategy towards Asia; the Comparative Advantage of Canadian Exports." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-193817.

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The goal of this thesis is to determine how Canada's competitiveness is being affected by its commodity-based, US-centric export mix, if it is justified to talk about a ''resource curse'' and if efforts to diversify should be pursued. In the end, the aim is to understand how the chosen trade strategy will impact Canadian efforts to tap into the Asian markets. Chapter 1 will first look into the theory of comparative advantage which was first established by David Ricardo and then extended through several neoclassic theories (namely, the Heckscher-Ohlin model), the various assumptions made will b

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Riaz, Bushra. "Three Empirical Essays on Comparative Advantage & Productivity Growth in Asia." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/670404.

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The thesis is a combination of three independent papers that discuss various challenges posed on developing countries of Asia and provide suggestions as to how comparative advantage and labor productivity growth is relevant towards their economic growth. We seek to explore why these countries tend to lag behind in terms of productivity growth. Moreover, we also seek to compare China, the U.S., and the EU in terms of their trade competitiveness in various sectors to examine the convergence and divergence pattern of their comparative advantage.

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Van, Rooyen Ray (Ray Glen). "The comparative advantage of commercial wheat production in the Western Cape." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/51948.

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Thesis (MAgricAdmin)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Agriculture is heavily subsidised and protected in most of the major industrial countries. Some of the effects are obvious through the heavy costs imposed on national budgets. Other effects, such as those on consumers or on overall economic efficiency, are less obvious but are nonetheless extremely important. In South Africa there has never been an attempt to calculate total government intervention in agriculture. However, this changed at the time of the negotiations for the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade neg

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Pepler, Jaco Johann. "Advantage for creditors in South African insolvency law - a comparative investigation." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/41241.

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The main aim of the sequestration process, in terms of the Insolvency Act, is to provide for a collective debt collecting process that will ensure an orderly and fair distribution of the debtor’s assets in circumstances where these assets are insufficient to satisfy all the creditor’s claims. This is to make sure that the interests of the group of creditors are protected and that one creditor is not favoured before another. The insolvent estate of a debtor may be sequestrated by himself voluntarily or one or more of his creditors may apply for the compulsory sequestration of his estate Unde

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Dorjee, Kinlay. "An analysis of comparative advantage and development policy options in Bhutanese agriculture /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1995. http://e-collection.ethbib.ethz.ch/show?type=diss&nr=11081.

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Leite, Cristiane Sobreira. "Comparative advantage of Brazil's exports to other countries of MERCOSUR in 2008." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2009. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=4150.

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nÃo hÃ<br>This paper aims to identify and analyze Brazil's exports to the rest of the Southern Common Market - Mercosur in 2008 by groups of products exported, based on the percentage of dollars traded and on the use of labor-skilled or not, as factor of production. This way, sectors are identified in descending order of percentage of exports, which together concentrate half of Brazilian exports to the rest of the bloc, which, since its original formation, consists of four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is also identified based on the Heckscher-Ohlin model, which labor

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Czifra, Vanda. "The Competitiveness of the Hungarian Agri-Food Sector : From Transition to Accession." Thesis, Uppsala University, Department of Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7073.

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<p>The Hungarian agricultural sector has undergone substantial changes between 1992 and 2003, which was a period of transformation from command economy to an EU-conform market economy. The question is whether the Hungarian agricultural sector was able to keep its competitiveness despite the extensive transformation. The aim of this paper is to measure the competitiveness of Hungarian agri-food product groups in relation to the ones of the EU-15 during the transformation period. Results indicate that the competitiveness, measured by revealed comparative advantage (RCA), of the studied agri-food

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Subasat, Turan. "Export-led development : a theoretical and empirical investigation." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313349.

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Mahlanza, Bongiswa. "Modelling the relative comparative advantage of organic wheat production in the Western Cape." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52344.

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Thesis (MScAgric.)--Stellenbosch University, 2001.<br>ENGLISH ABSTRACT: After sixty years of state control, the agricultural sector in South Africa has been transformed to the so-called free dispensation, with the driving forces being market access and rules of the WTO. On the one hand, this increased the exposure of the sector, particularly at international level where interest for South African produce developed. On the other hand, transformation induced a considerable degree of price squeeze and risk in the production of certain commodities including wheat. Notwithstanding, local wh

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Muzaffer, Mustafa Mohammed. "Trade openness and economic growth in a set of Scandinavian countries : A study on trade openness and the impact it has on economic growth for Sweden and Norway and Denmark." Thesis, Södertörns högskola, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-31329.

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Significant growth rates are in many times associated with countries embracing the ongoing globalization and openness to the international market of exchanging goods and services as well as ideas and technologies. Many researchers believe that participating in an international economy is a primary source of growth. The question is how strong the relationship between openness and growth is and has interested many researchers. This paper aims to investigate the effects of trade openness on economic growth in the long run and begins from Adam smith`s discussion on absolute advantage and specializ

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Djau, Mamadu Alfa. "Desempenho comercial do mercosul: estrutura, vantagens comparativas reveladas e comÃrcio inter e intra-setorial." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2015. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=13736.

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CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior<br>This search investigated the trade performance of South Common Market (MERCOSUL) with emphasis as consequence of the modification over the word economy, such as the market integration, technological advances and competition gains inducing the international trade to have deep structural transformations. The search started by performing segmentation of word economy in regional blocks changing the multilateral negotiations among countries, trying combining forces to get up the level of competitiveness and assure their insertion in the

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Neves, Rui Jorge da Costa. "Structural transformation and specialization patterns in the product space: assessing China and India." Master's thesis, NSBE - UNL, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/9609.

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A Work Project, presented as part of the requirements for the Award of a Masters Degree in Economics from the NOVA – School of Business and Economics<br>This paper assesses the specialization patterns of China and India, studies the goods that are related to the core of capabilities of the countries, and then investigates the products that allow the referred countries to improve the average “income content” of their export basket. Following Hausmann et al. (2007) we compute indicators of “income content” of a country's export basket and measures of “density” which assess the likelihood of a co

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Santos, Roberto Lima dos. "Análise do grau de competitividade do setor de biscoitos do Brasil no século XXI." Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2010. http://www.repositorio.jesuita.org.br/handle/UNISINOS/3278.

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Schumacher, Reinhard. "Free trade and absolute and comparative advantage : a critical comparison of two major theories of international trade." Universität Potsdam, 2012. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2012/6023/.

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This thesis deals with two theories of international trade: the theory of comparative advantage, which is connected to the name David Ricardo and is dominating current trade theory, and Adam Smith’s theory of absolute advantage. Both theories are compared and their assumptions are scrutinised. The former theory is rejected on theoretical and empirical grounds in favour of the latter. On the basis of the theory of absolute advantage, developments of free international trade are examined, whereby the focus is on trade between industrial and underdeveloped countries. The main conclusions are that

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Bahar, Dany. "Essays on the Transmission and Diffusion of Productive Knowledge in International Economics." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11337.

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Numerous empirical studies have shown the difficulties associated with the transmission of knowledge and the limitations of its diffusion process. What are the implications of these difficulties and limitations to international economics? This dissertation deals with this question by looking at how productive knowledge plays a role in the evolution of the comparative advantage of nations and the international expansion of multinational corporations. The first chapter finds that a country is 65% more likely to start exporting a good that is being exported by any of its geographic neighbors, con

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Mau, Karsten [Verfasser], and Erich [Akademischer Betreuer] Gundlach. "Essays in International Economics : China's Exports, Growth, and Comparative Advantage / Karsten Mau. Betreuer: Erich Gundlach." Hamburg : Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1080721215/34.

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Bebek, Ufuk Gunes. "Gravity models, revealed comparative advantage and specialisation patterns regarding Turkey vis-à-vis the EU." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633827.

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This thesis has two primary objectives; analysing Turkey's bilateral trade flows to assess the allocation effects of the Customs Union (CU) between Turkey and the EU and analysing Turkey's patterns of export specialisation vis-a.-vis the EU15 a. la revealed comparative advantage (RCA). Chapter 2 investigates the trade creating and trade diverting effects of the CU by employing a gravity model of trade framework that stems from-the New Trade Theory. The main finding of this chapter is, although the CU is estimated to not have created trade with member states at the expense of non-member states,

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Lesenyeho, Ntsane Kenneth. "The constitutionality of the advantage to creditors required and a comparative investigation in Insolvency Law." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62544.

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This dissertation is an investigation into the constitutionality of the requirement of advantage to creditors in South African consumer insolvency law as well as a comparative investigation into debt relief procedures available to consumer debtors in Australia and England. The dissertation identifies and discusses debt relief procedures available in South African consumer insolvency law namely sequestration, debt review and administration. The author suggests that these procedures do not provide adequate relief as it does not provide a debt discharge for "poor" debtors, that is debtors who do

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Uddin, Mahmud Azim. "Comparative spatial advantage between microfinance institute and banking in reaching rural enterprise financial services in Bangladesh." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/459239.

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L'objectiu d'aquesta tesi és explorar la realitat poc coneguda de la Intermediació Financera Rural, la seva situació i els acords per poder-hi accedir l’Empresa Rural, les activitats econòmiques rurals i l’explotació agrària, en el context de l'agenda d'inclusió financera multidimensional. També voldríem analitzar la cultura rural d'estalvi i crèdit i determinar bones pràctiques institucionals a nivell rural tant per a la banca com l’Institut de Microfinances (IMF). Compararem els bancs i l'IMF, per veure la disposició espacial avantatjosa d’aquest en el context rural, juntament amb la seva bo

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Lanz, Rainer. "Services trade liberalisation and patterns of trade in intermediates: determinants, comparative advantage and intra-firm trade." Diss., lmu, 2010. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-139627.

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Savsin, Selen. "China´s Integration in Foreign Trade : Revealed Comparative Advantage Analysis for Sweden in Relation with China." Thesis, Örebro universitet, Handelshögskolan vid Örebro universitet, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:oru:diva-20040.

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Diffey, Tod B., and Matthew J. Beck. "Aviation logistics in U.S. Pacific Command: a cost-based analysis and comparative advantage to commercial shipment." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/27821.

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Outstanding Thesis<br>Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited<br>The purpose of this study is to compare the cost and time-to-reliably-replenish constraints of commercial and military modes of shipment to the main three annual joint United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) exercises conducted in three distinct allied countries. This study also estimates potential cost savings if commercial shipment becomes the primary means. Using a business case analysis, we compare the estimated costs of current methods for providing logistical support in USPACOM, and provide recommendations to

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Greek, Selin Matilda, and Calum James. "A multilingual advantage, or lack thereof? : A comparative study of executive functions in bilinguals and multilinguals." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för hälsa, lärande och teknik, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-85293.

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The present study aimed to examine how bilinguals and multilinguals performed in executive functioning measures as well as potential differences in performance in terms of number of languages spoken and language proficiency. A sample of 191 participants between the ages 50-75 who spoke 1-5 languages were administered six executive functioning tasks measuring inhibition and switching performance. Three different language variables were examined, namely self-reported number of languages spoken, language proficiency and recategorised number of languages spoken based on proficiency. Analyses showe

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Thulin, Per. "Essays on Regional Growth, Comparative Advantages and Foreign Direct Investments." Doctoral thesis, KTH, Transporter och samhällsekonomi (stängd 20110301), 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-11846.

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This thesis consists of four essays, covering four different topics. The first essay investigates the relationship between inter-firm labor mobility and regional productivity growth. Previous studies have shown that density is positively correlated with growth. I claim that it is not density in itself, but rather the attributes associated with it that drives economic growth. One such attribute is the increased possibility for labor mobility and knowledge diffusion that follows when firms and individuals locate in close proximity to each other. This hypothesis is tested using density as an inst

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Serra, Postiglione Virginia. "A comparative study of the sources of competitive advantage in the New Zealand and Uruguayan beef industries." Lincoln University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10182/1115.

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According to Porter (1990), there are certain characteristics of a country that allow its industries to create and sustain competitive advantage, or prevent them from doing so. The objective of this study was to identify and compare the sources of competitive advantage or disadvantage for the Uruguayan and New Zealand beef industries. To accomplish these objectives, Porter’s Diamond Framework was selected as the theoretical framework to assess the competitive advantage of nations. Two case studies “the Beef Industry in Uruguay” and “the Beef Industry in New Zealand” were carried out. The infor

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Vitti, Aline. "Análise da competitividade das exportações brasileiras de frutas selecionadas no mercado internacional." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/11/11132/tde-13042009-153812/.

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A participação do Brasil no mercado externo de frutas tem aumentado nos últimos anos e, apesar de o Brasil não apresentar participação relevante no mercado internacional, sabe-se que pode crescer ainda mais, visto o potencial do País. Dessa forma, o objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a competitividade das exportações brasileiras de frutas no mercado internacional, possibilitando identificar os fatores que têm sido responsáveis pelos ganhos de competitividade das exportações brasileiras de frutas entre os anos de 1989 a 2006. Para a realização deste estudo foram selecionadas as sete principais

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Miranda, Gil Maria. "Identification of Comparative Advantage in the Production of Corn, Wheat, Soybeans and Ethanol - Brazil and the United States." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1393069896.

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Xia, Tianjiao. "Alliance behaviour, absorptive capacity and competitive advantage: a comparative study of biopharmaceutical firms in Europe and the US." Thesis, Aston University, 2007. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10898/.

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In this thesis, we explore the relationship between absorptive capacity and alliances, and their influence on firms’ competitive advantage in the US and European biopharmaceutical sectors. The study undertaken in this thesis is based on data from a large-scale international survey of over 2,500 biopharmaceutical firms in the US, the UK, Germany, France and Ireland. The thesis advanced a conceptual framework, which integrated the multi-dimensions of absorptive capacity, exploration-exploitation alliances, and competitive advantage, into a biopharmaceutical firm’s new product development process

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Kim, Yeon Joon Trindade Vitor. "Three essays on the factor content of trade." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/6176.

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Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on Feb 15, 2010). The entire thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file; a non-technical public abstract appears in the public.pdf file. Dissertation advisor: Dr. Vitor Trindade. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Veyseh, Fereydoon. "Small and medium sized companies' perceptions of competitive advantage : a comparative study of China and Iran's automotive components' manufacturers." Thesis, University of East London, 2012. http://roar.uel.ac.uk/3128/.

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Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are significant to the creation of sustainable economic growth and its subsequent influence on the level of employment in developing and emerging countries. Understanding the ways in which competitive advantage can be gained remains a significant issue for practitioners and academics alike (Powell, 2001). However, a definitive explanation has yet to be found, in consequence many explanations abound. This thesis is concerned with the perception, usage and structure of Competitive Advantage within Iranian automotive parts manufacturing SMEs compared to C

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Hein, Piret. "Competitiveness and comparative advantage in the Estonian milk sector : a PAM analysis for different farm types and processing enterprises /." Aachen : Shaker, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/513558799.pdf.

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Lee, Kyoung Hoon. "Industrial evolution and national institutional advantage : a comparative analysis of the photovoltaic industry in Germany, China and South Korea." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/42076/.

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A number of alternative economic and economic geography theories have been developed to account for the divergence of national political economy and industrial dynamics. These include the varieties of capitalism, developmental state, neo-Schumpeterian innovation, and Gerschenkronian catching-up theories. In this thesis I shall argue that in these theories a core and often shared concept of "institutional advantage" plays a central role in explaining different economic performances across nations. This concept is elaborated as a means of examining the causal relationships between institutional

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Cabrita, André Fonseca Lopes. "A competitividade das exportações de Portugal e China para o mercado angolano." Master's thesis, Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/15221.

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Mestrado em Gestão e Estratégia Industrial<br>Este Trabalho Final de Mestrado tem como principal objetivo efetuar uma análise que permita examinar a competitividade da China e de Portugal relativamente a Angola. O período em estudo foi de 2005 a 2015 e foi analisado o crescimento das exportações dos países em questão. Inicialmente é feita uma reflexão acerca da ambiguidade e dificuldade em que consiste descrever o conceito de "competitividade". É feito também um estudo sobre os métodos referentes a medidas de competitividade. Foram então utilizados dois métodos para a medição: (i) a Vantagem

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Nguyen, Manh-Hai. "Changing comparative advantage of rice production under transformation and trade liberalisation : a policy analysis matrix study of Vietnam's rice sector /." Beuren ; Stuttgart : Grauer, 2002. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=010015520&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Blytt, Erik. "Can poverty be a comparative advantage? : a study of export strategies based on low labour costs ; the case of Zimbabwe /." Oslo : SUM, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/534289312.pdf.

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Modiri, Namie Mosa. "The Corporate Social Responsibility of companies and its effects on competitive advantage : a comparative analysis of Botswana and South Africa." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60068.

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South Africa and Botswana, as developing countries, continue to face various challenges in relation to a respectable and sustainable corporate governance. The multi-faceted objectives of both countries? competition regimes appear to pose grave challenges for the competition authorities, who ought to balance contending public interest considerations in developing a competition friendly character. The essential foundation of competition law, both in South Africa as well as Botswana, lies in the suggestion that competition produces social benefits which are misplaced in a monopoly, and that an ef

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Gupte, Tanay. "The Pursuit of Innovation: An Analysis of International Competitive Advantage in a Globalized Knowledge Economy." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1742.

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With the advent of the internet age, the way in which global society interacts with technology has changed dramatically. The instantaneous availability of information and connectivity, signal the rise of a knowledge economy. This is a system in which the most valuable resource, to nations and private enterprise, is knowledge. This thesis argues that value is created through knowledge flows, which result in innovation and technological advancement. This technological advancement is the primary determinant of a nation’s global competitive advantage in a globalized knowledge economy. This thesis

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