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Foreign Direct Investment, Competition and Industrial Development in the Host Country: An Analysis for the Case of "White" Certificates

Barrios, Salvador; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

This paper analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the development of local firms. We focus on two likely effects of FDI: a competition effect which deters entry of domestic firms and positive market externalities which foster the development of local industry. Using a simple...

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Innovation Clusters: Combining Physical and Virtual Links

Preissl, Brigitte - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

Innovation is increasingly seen as a collective action which involves many different actors operating in a cluster … important tool to study innovation, but the globalisation of companies and markets and the specific requirements of innovation … and virtual cluster links improves access to essential resources in innovation. An examples taken from the automotive …

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Open Source Software, Closed Source Software or Both: Impacts on Industry Growth and the Role of Intellectual Property Rights

Engelhardt, Sebastian von; Swaminathan, Sushmita - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

There is considerable debate regarding the use of intellectual property rights (IPR) to spur innovation in the software …

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20 Years of German Unification: Evidence on Income Convergence and Heterogeneity

Brück, Tilman; Peters, Heiko - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

We analyse the convergence and heterogeneity of living standards between East and West Germany since unification. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), we compare total individual income of permanent adult residents, including retirees and the unemployed, of East and West...

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Riding the Transition Roller-Coaster: Flexibility and the Inter-Industry Wage Structure in Russia

Geishecker, Ingo; Haisken-DeNew, John P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper examines the changes in the inter-industry wage structure experienced by Russia since 1993, as part of its transition from a plan-based economy to a more \market oriented" structure. Using two Russian household panel data sets, the RLMS and the RUSSET, we _nd that since the...

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Product Policy and the East-West Productivity Gap: Evidence from German Manufacturing Firms

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Voshage, Ramona; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

After 20 years of transition from an economy integrated in an exchange scheme of planned economies towards an open market economy based on the ideas of competition, we ask whether East German firms succeeded in finding their place in the international division of labour. We concentrate on the...

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Do the Best Go West?: An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy model predicts that a positive selection bias of East-West migrants should disappear. Using a switching regression model and data from the IAB-employment sample, we find however...

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Wage Policies of a Russian Firm and the Financial Crisis of 1998: Evidence from Personnel Data - 1997 to 2002

Dohmen, Thomas; Lehmann, Hartmut; Schaffer, Mark E. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

We use a rich personnel data set from a Russian firm for the years 1997 to 2002 to analyze how the financial crisis in 1998 and the resulting change in external labor market conditions affect the wages and the welfare of workers inside a firm. We provide evidence that large shocks to external...

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Power Utility Re-regulation in East European and CIS Transformation Countries (1990-1999): An Institutional Interpretation

Hirschhausen, Christian von; Opitz, Petra - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

This paper analyzes the process of power utility re-regulation in Eastern Europe and the CIS during the decade of systemic transformation (1990-1999); in particular, it explores reasons why early attempts to introduce competition-oriented reform models have not succeeded. We discuss advantages...

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Price Cost Margins and Exporting Behaviour: Evidence from Firm Level Data

Görg, Holger; Warzynski, Frederic - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003

This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...

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