Profit maximising goes global: The race to the bottom

Cambridge Journal of Economics

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1333-1350

  Kiefer, David ^a   Rada, Codrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributive demand dynamics; Panel data estimation; Predator prey models

Indexed keywords

DEMAND ANALYSIS; ECONOMETRICS; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OECD; PANEL DATA; PROFITABILITY;

EID: 84940850846     PISSN: 0309166X     EISSN: 14643545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cje/beu040     Document Type: Article

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