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Accounting for the Evolution of China's Production and Trade Patterns

International Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global economy. Using firm‐level microdata, we document how production and exports shifted across industries and within industries across firms.
Hanwei Huang, Jiandong Ju, Vivian Z. Yue
wiley   +1 more source

Heterogeneity and agency in the contemporary food regime in Switzerland: among the food from nowhere, somewhere, and here sub-regimes. [PDF]

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud
Stotten R.
europepmc   +1 more source

Linkage Between Electoral Cycle and the Discouragement of African Firms in the Credit Market

International Finance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article analyzes the linkage between the electoral cycle and the discouragement of SMEs in the credit market of 14 African countries. It focuses on 12,145 firms over the period 2006–2020. The results obtained from Probit estimates show elections are negatively linked with the discouragement of firms in the credit market.
Cherif Abdramane, Simplice A. Asongu
wiley   +1 more source

Rebuilding Tripartism and Labor Standards From Below? Legitimation Politics and Risks Around Local Employment Standards

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Establishing voluntary labor standards depends on securing the voluntary engagement of multiple actors with potentially diverging interests. This paper examines the legitimation politics and processes surrounding attempts to develop local labor standards through an empirical study of local employment charters in England.
Ceri Hughes, Stephen Mustchin, Miguel Martínez Lucio   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the spatial fix: towards a finance-sensitive reading of the Belt and Road in Serbia. [PDF]

Area Dev Policy
Liu IT.
europepmc   +1 more source

Determinants of Political Polarization and Consensus in the US Congress: An Analysis of Policy Issues and Institutional Factors (1991–2020)

International Social Science Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how different policy issues and institutional factors influence the strength of political consensus and polarized voting in the United States (US) Congress between 1991 and 2020. Utilising the Jordan Tama important congressional votes dataset, the analysis investigates the impact of external factors, such as foreign trade ...
Binda Godlove Aka, Michael K. Dzordzormenyoh   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waking a Dormant Legal Resource: Institutional Activation and the Origins of Important Projects of Common European Interest

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Important Projects of Common European Interest (IPCEIs) have become a central tool of the European Union's (EU) new industrial policy. IPCEIs derive their peculiar name from an exemption to the general prohibition on state aid that has existed since the Treaty of Rome but has only led to the creation of a stand‐alone policy instrument in 2014.
Timo Seidl, Henrique Lopes‐Valença
wiley   +1 more source

Politicisation and Agricultural (Post‐)Exceptionalism in EU–Mercosur Association Agreement Negotiations

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how the politicisation of EU trade policy – defined by heightened public salience, stakeholder polarisation and contestation – reshapes agricultural lobbying strategies, with a particular focus on the EU–Mercosur Association Agreement.
Emilio Del Pupo
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Spaces: Civil Society Engagement in EU–Mercosur Trade Negotiations

JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract The EU–Mercosur Association Agreement negotiations have become a focal point for examining the limits of civil society engagement in EU trade policy‐making. This article analyses the design, implementation and outcomes of participatory mechanisms – including Civil Society Dialogues, Domestic Advisory Groups and the European Economic and Social
Emilio Del Pupo
wiley   +1 more source

The effects of free trade agreements on the stock market: Evidence from Vietnam. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pham H, Mudalige P, Le H, Bui M, Nguyen V, Ramiah V, Chu T, Vu TH.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source