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Sources of Business Unit Performance Heterogeneity in India: The Influence of Ownership

Researchers have found that the relative importance of industry, corporate, and business unit effects vary depending on the broad economic sector in which a company is participating, or the country in which the corporation is operating. While this research has taken us a long way in understanding the effects of internal and external factors on the performance variance of a firm, our understanding of how generalizable those findings are across various ownership categories are scarce.

ResearchLORNA MCCONNVILLESeptember 17, 2020Business, india, multibusiness firms, economics

Wealth inequality and inter-governorate migration: Evidence from Egypt

Although economic growth constitutes a necessary condition to reduce poverty, economists agree that its efficiency in terms of poverty reduction largely depends on the level of wealth inequality. Nowadays, most countries pursue a pro-poor growth policy that not only promotes economic growth but also reduces wealth inequality.

ResearchLORNA MCCONNVILLEAugust 27, 2020wealth, inequality, migration, Egypt, economics

The Impact of the US–China Trade War on the European Union

Since April 2018, the USA and China have been engaged in a trade war. Because of the importance of these two countries in world trade, this dispute does affect not only the Chinese and American economies but also the entire world. Several studies have shown the impact of this dispute on different countries in Asia, but little was done to study the effect on the European Union (EU) member states.