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Determinants of Export Survival in the Lao PDR
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Year: 2013 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper explores a rich dataset of monthly firm-level data on the population of exporters of Lao PDR from 2005 to 2010. The survival analysis uses a discrete-time logistic model based on firm-product-destination triplets while accounting for unobserved heterogeneity. It looks in detail at the role played by two important and related determinants of survival: experience and networks. These are particularly relevant for developing countries, where relevant export experience in firms is likely to be limited and networks leveraging it all the more important. The analysis reveals the positive impact of having prior experience with the export product and destination, experience with importing, as well as using a developed neighboring country as launch platform. Networks are found to be most relevant when they are most specific-the largest impact comes from province level aggregations of firms selling the same product in the same market during a particular month. A competing risks model was also investigated to discern the impact of these determinants on the likelihood of experiencing an upgrade to a superior product versus termination when a trade contract ends.


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Dossier : Images mises en forme

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Dossier : Quel rapport l’image entretient-elle avec le support qui la véhicule ? Les vases attiques fournissent une quantité de représentations souvent traitées comme si elles étaient plates et immatérielles. Ce dossier questionne cette matérialité selon deux axes : comment l’image s’adapte-t-elle aux surfaces rondes, sphériques, circulaires du vase ? Varia : Paradigmes masculins (le vieux Priam, le héros euripidéen, sophistes platoniciens, Hermès au gymnase, Ésope). Archéologie d'un mythe (les Arimaspes). Étiologie. Conférence Gernet : Aube de la cité, aube des images ?


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Picturing Commerce in and from the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800
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ISBN: 9789048535446 9048535441 9789462984677 9462984670 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam

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Combining strikingly new scholarship by art historians, historians, and ethnomusicologists, this interdisciplinary volume illuminates trade ties within East Asia, and from East Asia outwards, in the years 1550 to 1800. While not encyclopedic, the selected topics greatly advance our sense of this trade picture. Throughout the book, multi-part trade structures are excavated; the presence of European powers within the Asian trade nexus features as part of this narrative. Visual goods are highlighted, including lacquerwares, paintings, prints, musical instruments, textiles, ivory sculptures, unfired ceramic portrait figurines, and Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Southeast Asian ceramic vessels. These essays underscore the significance of Asian industries producing multiples, and the rhetorical charge of these goods, shifting in meaning as they move. Everyday commodities are treated as well; for example, the trans-Pacific trade in contraband mercury, used in silver refinement, is spelled out in detail. Building reverberations between merchant networks, trade goods, and the look of the objects themselves, this richly-illustrated book brings to light the Asian trade engine powering the early modern visual cultures of East and Southeast Asia, the American colonies, and Europe.


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From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean
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ISBN: 0520266870 9786613277312 0520947576 128327731X 0520282175 9780520947573 9781283277310 9780520266872 9780520282179 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. London, England

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Drawing on a rich trove of documents, including correspondence not seen for 300 years, this study explores the emergence and growth of a remarkable global trade network operated by Armenian silk merchants from a small outpost in the Persian Empire. Based in New Julfa, Isfahan, in what is now Iran, these merchants operated a network of commercial settlements that stretched from London and Amsterdam to Manila and Acapulco. The New Julfan Armenians were the only Eurasian community that was able to operate simultaneously and successfully in all the major empires of the early modern world-both land-based Asian empires and the emerging sea-borne empires-astonishingly without the benefits of an imperial network and state that accompanied and facilitated European mercantile expansion during the same period. This book brings to light for the first time the trans-imperial cosmopolitan world of the New Julfans. Among other topics, it explores the effects of long distance trade on the organization of community life, the ethos of trust and cooperation that existed among merchants, and the importance of information networks and communication in the operation of early modern mercantile communities.


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Across the Sahara : tracks, trade and cross-cultural xchange in Libya
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ISBN: 3030001458 303000144X 9783030001452 Year: 2020 Publisher: Springer Nature

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This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessary to establish those trade networks. Included are a variety of unique historical and recent maps as well as remote sensing images of the important trade routes and the corresponding historic oases. To give a deeper understanding of how those trading networks work, aspects such as culturally influenced concepts of spatial orientation are discussed. The book aims to be a useful reference for the caravan trade in the Sahara, that can be recommended both to students and to specialists and researchers in the field of Geography, History and African Studies.


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Between Monopoly and Free Trade : The English East India Company, 1600-1757
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ISBN: 9780691159065 0691159068 0691173796 1400850339 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests while in the firm's employ. Exploring trade network dynamics, decision-making processes, and ports and organizational context, Emily Erikson demonstrates why the English East India Company was a dominant force in the expansion of trade between Europe and Asia, and she sheds light on the related problems of why England experienced rapid economic development and how the relationship between Europe and Asia shifted in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Though the Company held a monopoly on English overseas trade to Asia, the Court of Directors extended the right to trade in Asia to their employees, creating an unusual situation in which employees worked both for themselves and for the Company as overseas merchants. Building on the organizational infrastructure of the Company and the sophisticated commercial institutions of the markets of the East, employees constructed a cohesive internal network of peer communications that directed English trading ships during their voyages. This network integrated Company operations, encouraged innovation, and increased the Company's flexibility, adaptability, and responsiveness to local circumstance. Between Monopoly and Free Trade highlights the dynamic potential of social networks in the early modern era.

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History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- History of Asia --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- Free trade --- Capitalism --- Social networks. --- East India Company --- History. --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- Networking, Social --- Networks, Social --- Social networking --- Social support systems --- Support systems, Social --- Interpersonal relations --- Cliques (Sociology) --- Microblogs --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- Asia. --- Asian commercial institutions. --- Asian merchants. --- Asian ports. --- Asian trading ports. --- Court of Directors. --- English East India Company. --- English trade patterns. --- Europe. --- Industrial Revolution. --- alternative explanations. --- analytical sociology. --- choosing ports. --- commercial networks. --- comparative analysis. --- corruption. --- decentralization. --- decentralized market exchange. --- decentralized organizational structure. --- decentralized ports. --- early modern period. --- eastern ports. --- economic development. --- economic theory. --- financial networks. --- foreign trade institutions. --- global trade. --- historical change. --- individual-level actions. --- market structure. --- merchant capitalism. --- micro-level behavioral patterns. --- militarization. --- modernity. --- monopoly. --- multilateral commercial network. --- new markets. --- new organizational forms. --- nineteenth century. --- operational decisions. --- opportunity structures. --- organizational background. --- organizational characteristics. --- organizational context. --- organizational incentive structures. --- other East India companies. --- overseas trade expansion. --- overseas trade. --- patterns of innovation. --- private trade allowances. --- private trade. --- small-scale commercial actors. --- social networks. --- trade networks. --- trading decisions. --- trading partnerships. --- trading ships. --- underdevelopment.

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