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wiiw Database on Foreign Direct Investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe: Shift to the East

Hunya, Gábor; Schwarzhappel, Monika - Wiener Institut für Internationale …

The FDI inflow to Central, East and Southeast Europe reached a new high in 2006, EUR 77 billion, 30% more than in the previous year. But the FDI inflow and its growth were unevenly distributed. The inflow was stagnating in the NMS-5 but increasing in Southeast Europe and the European CIS. This...

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wiiw Database on Foreign Direct Investment in Central, East and Southeast Europe, 2008: Decline to Follow Uneven FDI Inflow Growth

Hunya, Gábor; Schwarzhappel, Monika - Wiener Institut für Internationale …

FDI inflows reached a new high in 2007 in the CEEC region as a whole. Within the region, the shift of new investments to the East continued: a decline or at best stagnation was recorded in the NMS, modest growth in Southeast Europe, and a boom in the CIS. For the first time, the four European...

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Organizational decisions in multistage production processes

Nowak, Verena - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

Organizational decisions in multistage production processes are often not made by the downstream headquarter firm, but by the various intermediate inputs suppliers along the value chain themselves. We assume a production process with one headquarter (final good producer) and two suppliers at...

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Monthly Report No. 3/2009

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Vidovic, Hermine - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

Topics Labour and Migration Outsourcing and skills an empirical investigation (by M. Landesmann and R. Stehrer; pp. 15 …-20) Keywords outsourcing, labour, skills, specialization Countries covered European Union, New EU Member States, Asia, USA Topics …

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Opportunities for Acquisition and Outsourcing

Hunya, Gabor - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005

This new, annual publication of wiiw replaces the former wiiw-WIFO Database on FDI. It has become more detailed, containing some 2500 times series, and is more user-friendly than the former one. The wiiw Database on FDI is available in print and PDF as well as on CD-ROM. The latter version...

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Global sourcing of complex production processes

Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2013

We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, the firm decides i) how many intermediate inputs are simultaneously combined to a final product, ii) if the...

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Asymmetric spiders: Supplier heterogeneity and the organization of firms

Nowak, Verena; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014

's organizational structure, and we analyze which sourcing mode (outsourcing or vertical integration) is chosen for which of the …

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South-North Integration, Outsourcing and Skills

Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

particular we look at the role of outsourcing in the process of trade integration of these countries. Further we discuss the … particularly for processed inputs and parts production are interpreted in a catching-up framework combined with outsourcing High … hypothesis that geographic proximity is important for outsourcing activities. …

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Effects of High-Tech Capital, FDI and Outsourcing on Demand for Skills in West and East

Esposito, Piero; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

In this paper we study the effects of high-tech capital, foreign direct investment flows and outsourcing on demand for … outsourcing we further distinguish the effects of trade and outsourcing on relative wages by different groups of partner countries …. This allows to study the effects of 'inward' outsourcing and foreign direct investment flows to Central and Eastern …

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Services Trade and Policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, B. - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO and regional trade agreements. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature touches on...

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