Search for dissertations about: "Capital goods imports"
Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Capital goods imports.
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1. Used Clothes and Social Goods: Two economic problems
Abstract : PAPER 1: Used Clothes As Development Aid: The political economy of rags Report of a study for Sida (the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency) by Rick Wicks and Arne Bigsten Abstract: Should Swedish used-clothes exports continue to be subsidized as development aid? Theoretical analysis and review of empirical evidence regarding effects of both commercial and charitable (subsidized) used-clothes imports in LDCs. Includes statistics on the world used-clothes trade, including 127 gross used-clothes-exporting countries and 181 importing countries in 1990 (with values, weights, average prices, and weights-per-capita), and some specifics of U. READ MORE
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2. Knowledge, location, and trade
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is to analyze how knowledge contained in traded goods influences firms’ demand for labor, and how knowledge-rich routines across space affect the innovative performance in firms and regions.Four research questions are presented that address how knowledge can travel in space. READ MORE
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3. Vertical Trade
Abstract : This thesis consists of three separate papers. They are all empirical papers that examine how fragmentation of production processes and global value chains have affected international trade patterns. The first paper focuses on how private standards in the increasingly geographically fragmented food sector affect firm-import behaviour. READ MORE