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Firm specific riskSee: Diversifiable risk or unsystematic riskFirm specific risk Similar MatchesLocation specific advantagesLocation specific advantagesAdvantages (natural and created) that are available only or primarily in a particular place. Specific commitmentSpecific commitmentUnder the GATS, the identification of a category of services in which a country will apply national treatment and assure market access for foreign service providers. Specific factorSpecific factorA factor of production that is unable to move into or out of an industry. The term is used to describe both factors that would not be of any use in other industries and -- more loosely -- factors that could be used elsewhere but do not, in the short run, have the time or resources needed to move. See specific factors model. The term seems to come from Haberler (1937). SpecificitySpecificityThe property that a policy measure applies to one or a group of enterprises or industries, as opposed to all industries. Specific factors modelSpecific factors modelA model in which some or all factors are specific factors. The most common version is the Ricardo-Viner Model, with one specific factor (often capital or land) in each industry plus another factor (often labor) that is mobile between them. But an extreme form of the model, the Cairnes-Haberler Model, has all factors specific. Further SuggestionsFirm specific newsSpecificity rule Specific Return Company specific risk Specific risk Non-specific subsidy specific legacy Specific tariff Specific issues market |
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