Essays on trade and technology

Since differences of market regulations in United Kingdom (UK) and recent financial crises (global financial crisis-GFC 2007-2009; Eurozone debt crisis-EDC 2010-2012)

equipment and know-how from developed countries. Such reliance on imported capital goods and know-how is evidenced by the sharp deterioration of the trade balance in the upward

 The expansionary monetary policy measures have had a negative impact on net interest margins both via the reduction in interest rates and –less powerfully- the flattening of the

Jointly estimate this entry game with several outcome equations (fees/rates, credit limits) for bank accounts, credit cards and lines of credit. Use simulation methods to

In our sample, 2890 deals were issued by less reputable underwriters (i.e. a weighted syndication underwriting reputation share below the share of the 7 th largest underwriter

There is a distinction between spatial relations as they are used in language; spatial relations as they are described in the qualitative spatial reasoning (QSR) literature, which

Then, the increase on the rental price of the technology a (with lower capital-labor ratio in cohabitation) is larger than the increase of rental price of the technology b, and the

A systematic review of the literature on the mechanisms that link poverty and crime was conducted in order to show the multiple ways in which this relationship is expressed in