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Self selection and post-entry effects of exports: Evidence from Italian manufacturing firms

Serti, Francesco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2007

mechanism, but also to efficiency improvements following the export activity. We find heterogeneous post entry effects with …

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Endogenous product versus process innovation and a firm's propensity to export

Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - 2007

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture … innovations and their impact on export propensity at the firm level through a double treatment approach. …

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Intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in OECD manufacturing: a spatial econometric perspective

Badinger, Harald; Egger, Peter - 2008

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R&D spillovers as well as remainder,...

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International Outsourcing and the Productivity of Low-skilled Labour in the EU

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2001

This paper presents first insights into the role of international outsourcing on the productivity of low-skilled workers in EU manufacturing. Whereas in the short run international outsourcing exhibits a negative marginal effect on real value added per low-skilled worker, the long-run parameter...

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International Outsourcing and the Skill-Specific Wage Bill in Eastern Europe

Egger, Peter; Stehrer, Robert - 2001

The paper analyses the effects of international fragmentation in terms of intermediate goods trade on the dynamics of skill-specific real wage bills in manufacturing of three Central and East European countries (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic). Both intermediate goods exports and imports of...

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A Tale of Competition between Eastern and Southern Europe (Rerum Concordia Discors)

Egger, Peter; Kratena, Kurt - 2001

This paper assesses the relationship between EU manufacturing imports from the southern EU and the CEEC. Final goods imports are strongly complementary and intermediate goods imports are substitutive. An increase in the high-skilled to low-skilled labor ratio in the EU-South or the degree of...

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Structural Funds, EU Enlargement, and the Redistribution of FDI in Europe

Breuss, Fritz; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2003

The envisaged EU enlargements will lead to a redirection of Structural and Cohesion Funds expenditures from current to new EU members. This redistribution of funds makes the accession countries even more attractive as a location of FDI. Using a logistic regressions approach, this paper shows...

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