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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be offshored. Our analysis relates to recent theoretical contributions arguing that there is only a loose relationship between the suitability of a task for offshoring and the...

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Trade costs in the global economy: Measurement, aggregation and decomposition

Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario; Nigai, Sergey; Yotov, Yoto - 2021

Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed significant new developments, both on the theoretical...

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Empirical Productivity Distributions and International Trade

Erhardt, Katharina; Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey - 2021

We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions against the backdrop of multi-sector versions of the models...

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The Taxing Deed of Globalization

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey; Strecker, Nora - 2016

We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...

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Export Market Exit and Financial Health in Crises Periods

Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - 2017

This paper uses rich firm-level data for the UK to investigate the link between firms' financial health and export exit … financial position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit during the 2007-09 crisis but has no significant effect on … sensitivity of export exit to financial conditions. We conclude that firms in sectors with great reliance on external finance …

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Joining the supply chain: A firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014

This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....

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Export market exit, financial pressure and the crisis

Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - 2013

Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms' financial health, borrowing ratio and export … position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit during the crisis. We also find that the sensitivity of export exit …

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FTAs and Philippine business: Evidence from transport, food, and electronics firms

Wignaraja, Ganeshan; Lazaro, Dorothea; DeGuzman, Genevieve - 2010

include the availability of export processing zone incentive schemes, low most-favored-nation rates (particularly in …

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Asian FTAs: Trends and challenges

Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2009

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the negative effects of Asian FTAs, including the noodle bowl problem. Amid slow progress in the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Doha...

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The Asian 'noodle bowl': Is it serious for business?

Kawai, Masahiro; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2009

A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business between those who view the agreements as a harmful Asian noodle bowl - i.e., overlapping regional trade agreements - of trade deals and others who see net beneficial effects in terms of...

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