In all modern industrial countries, redistributive expenditures are a larger component of the government budget than consumption of goods and services. In this paper, we use a general equilibrium, two-country model with exportables, importables and nontraclables to study redistribution across different types of agents in a world characterized by the presence of labor unions and distortionary ta...

with the economy’s progressive loss of competitiveness with regard to the foreign sector. Given the importance that the external sector has taken on, both for determining the financing needs of the economy and for future potential growth, the aim of this article is to explore the pattern of competitiveness that the Spanish economy has shown in comparison with its chief trading partners, along w...

Abstract. This paper retakes previous work of the authors, about the relationship between non–quasi–competitiveness (the increase in price caused by an increase in the number of oligopolists) and stability of the equilibrium in the classical Cournot oligopoly model. Though it has been widely accepted in the literature that the loss of quasi–competitiveness is linked, in the long run as new firm...

AbstrAct Just as Porter's value chain model identifies classes of business activity that can be performed in ways that contribute to a firm's competitiveness, the knowledge chain model contends there are classes of knowledge management (KM) activity that can be performed in ways that enhance firm competitiveness. These KM activities pervade the value chain, being inherent in the implementation ...

This book, entitled “City Competitiveness and Improving Urban Subsystems: Technologies and Applications,” explores a range of interests and activities concerning city competitiveness and urban systems from distinct disciplinary perspectives, including research from experts focusing on technology, planning, governance, and engineering. The primary focus of the book is one of the most important t...

This study aims to provide strategic guidelines to policy makers who are developing strategies to improve their country’s innovativeness. In this paper, we claim that innovation cannot be related only to some factors inherent in the environment of a country, nor is it a single entity to be managed without any linkages to the rest of the actors comprising the competitiveness of a country. Hence,...

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the relationships exist between (a) HRM practices; (b) KM practices and (c) organizational competitiveness. In addition, this study also researches whether the use of HRM/KM within the firm leads to the creation of organizational competitiveness between organization that practice HRM/KM and those that do not. A survey is conducted amongst MSC st...

The present study was performed to investigate the effect of commercial and operational factors on competitiveness improvement of Shahid Beheshti Port (SBP) in Chabahar in attracting shipping lines. The research method is applied in terms of purpose. Initially, the researcher conducted the qualitative phase to identify important variables, create a typology, or make new theories. To reach the s...