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African Regional Agreements: Impact on Trade with or without Currency Unions

The aim of this paper is (i) to assess the impact of regional agreements on members’ trade in Sub-Saharan Africa (intra-regional trade as well as trade with the rest of the world), controlling for the other traditional determinants and (ii) to compare the respective effect of the preferential trade agreements and the currency unions. Considering the period 1962–96, we first assess...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2004

Satisfaction and Interpersonal Closeness as Determinants of Relationship Commitment in Business-to-Business Relationships

The theory of embedded markets states that economic transactions are embedded in social relationships, and economic actors are influenced by both marketing variables and relationship properties. That is, within an exchange relationship actors derive utility from the attributes of a focal product and from interpersonal relationships. We investigate the different roles of satisfaction...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2004

Social protest and policy change: Ecology, antinuclear, and peace movements in comparative perspective

While movement activists spend much of their time and energy trying to change the world, our theoretical and empirical knowledge in this field is still relatively poor. In Social Protest and Policy Change, Marco Giugni offers a systematic and empirically grounded analysis of the impact of three major contemporary movements on public policy. Using a comparative and historical...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2004

Les théories de la justice. Application aux problèmes de l'eau. Conférence d'introduction

Il est nécessaire de souligner la très grande complexité du thème de la justice, quels que soient les domaines auxquels ce thème est appliqué. Je me focaliserai bien sûr plus particulièrement sur la thématique de l'eau en m'inspirant des grandes théories de la justice, celles de Aristote, de Michael Walzer, de John Rawls, de Robert Nozick.

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Université de Genève

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Français / 01/01/2004

Mercati globali, ‘Reverse Knowledge’ eCorporate Governance

I flussi informativi di ritorno (reverse knowledge) avvantaggiano le imprese multinazionali in proporzione alla missione strategica delle imprese controllate e consociate, allo sviluppo economico del loro Paese e all'abilità del quartier generale della ‘casa madre’ di far proprie le informazioni provenienti dall’esterno. All'interno delle imprese multinazionali, il...

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Université de Genève

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Italiano / 01/01/2003

A Free Trade Area of The Americas: Any Gains for the South?

Building on the experience of NAFTA, and assuming that rules of origin (RoO) negotiated under NAFTA are likely to resemble those that would be agreed upon in an FTAA, this paper discusses how different RoO criteria would affect different Southern partners in a multi-stage production setting. Next, we use a combination of parametric and non-parametric methods to estimate the costs of...

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Université de Genève

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English / 01/01/2003

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