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Italian firms in history: technology, firm size, and entrepreneurship
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Are firms exporting to China and India different from other exporters?
Get PDFThis chapter asks if and why advanced countries differ in their ability to export to China and India. To this end we exploit a newly collected, comparable cross-country dataset (EFIGE) obtained from a survey of 15,000 manufacturing firms in Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom. The EFIGE dataset contains detailed information on firms’ international activities as well as firm characteristics such as size and productivity, governance and management structure, workforce, innovation and research activity. We study both the extensive and intensive margins of exports and identify firm characteristics that are positively or negatively correlated wiThexporting activity tout court and wiThexporting to China and India conditional on being an exporter. We confirm previous rich evidence and show that larger, more productive, and more innovative firms are more likely to become exporters and export more. We also provide some new evidence on the role of governance and management: while there does not seem to be a strong negative effect of family ownership, we find that a higher percentage of family management reduces a firm’s export propensity and export volumes. When we turn to exports to China and India, we find that firms exporting there must be on average larger, more productive, and more innovative than firms exporting elsewhere
Rapid HPLC analysis of the antiepileptic lamotrigine and its metabolites in human plasma
No full textRapid HPLC analysis of the antiepileptic lamotrigine and its metabolites in human plasma
No full textA liquid chromatographic method with diode array detection (DAD) has been developed for the analysis of the antiepileptic agent lamotrigine (LTG) and its metabolites, lamotrigine 2-N-glucuronide and 2-N-methylated in plasma samples. The analytes were separated on a C8 RP column, using a mobile phase composed of methanol and a 0.45 mM, pH 3.5 phosphate buffer containing 0.17% triethylamine (24:76 v/v). Melatonin was used as the internal standard (IS). The DAD detector was set at 220 nm for the detection of all the analytes. A simple protein precipitation with methanol guaranteed high extraction yield values (>90%) and good purification from matrix interference. Good linearity was obtained in the 0.1-15.0 microg/mL range for LTG and lamotrigine 2-N-glucuronide and in the 0.1-2.0 microg/mL range for lamotrigine 2-N-methylated. The analytical method was validated in terms of precision, extraction yield, and accuracy. These assays gave RSD% values for precision always lower than 4.3% and mean accuracy higher than 80%. The method seems to be suitable for the analysis of plasma samples from patients treated with Lamicta
Output growth volatility and remittances
Get PDFSince output growth volatility has negative effects on growth, poverty and welfare, especially in poorer countries, it is crucial to identify the country-specific factors that affect it. The empirical literature has focused mostly on financial development, policy distortions and globalization variables. Among the latter, attention has been directed in particular to trade and financial openness. We contribute to this literature by adding what we see as the missing globalization variable, the one related to the increasingly important phenomenon of international migrations, namely emigrants' remittances. Remittances can help reduce output growth volatility thanks to their considerable magnitude, stability and low pro-cyclicality. Applying an empirical framework taken from the existing literature to a sample of about 60 emerging and developing economies over the period 1980-2003, we provide robust evidence that remittances are negatively correlated to output growth volatility. Instrumental variable estimation supports our intuition about the direction of causality.output growth volatility, workers’ remittances, compensation of employees, financial development, trade and financial openness
Rapid HPLC analysis of the antiepileptic lamotrigine and its metabolites in human plasma
No full textA liquid chromatographic method with diode array detection (DAD) has been developed for the analysis of the antiepileptic agent Lamotrigine and its metabolites, Lamotrigine 2-N-glucuronide and 2-N-methylated, in plasma samples. The analytes were separated on a C8 reversed phase column, using a mobile phase composed of methanol and a 0.45 mM, pH 3.5 phosphate buffer containing 0.17% triethylamine (24/76, v/v). Melatonin was used as the Internal Standard. The DAD detector is set at 220 nm for the detection of all the analytes. A simple protein precipitation with methanol guaranteed high extraction yield values (> 90 %) and good purification from matrix interference. Good linearity was obtained in the 0.1 – 15.0 μg/mL range for Lamotrigine and Lamotrigine 2-N-glucuronide and in the 0.1 – 2.0 μg/mL range for Lamotrigine 2-N-methylated. The analytical method was validated in terms of precision, extraction yield and accuracy. These assays gave RSD% values for precision always lower than 4.3 % and mean accuracy higher than 80 %. The method seems to be suitable for the analysis of plasma samples from patients treated with Lamictal
Discussione, in "Crescita e competitività dell'industria"
No full textCommento a due contributi presenti nel volume: 1) Bronzini R., "Investire all'estero ..."; 2) Bugamelli M. e M. Gallo, "I grandi esportatori ...
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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