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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries

Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...

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The Impact of South-South Trade Agreements on FDI

Cherif, Mondher; Dreger, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

The integration of emerging markets into the global economy is heavily promoted by foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows. Within the factors driving the location of FDI, regional trade agreements (RTAs) become increasingly relevant for emerging markets. We explore the impact of South-South...

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Outsourcing and the Demand for Low-skilled Labour in German Manufacturing: New Evidence

Geishecker, Ingo - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany during the 1990s. In contrast to previous empirical work, the single elements of the input-output-matrix are used to disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final...

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The World Gas Market in 2030: Development Scenarios Using the World Gas Model

Huppmann, Daniel; Egging, Ruud; Holz, Franziska; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

, consumption, traded volumes, and prices between the scenarios. Investments in pipelines, LNG terminals and storage are also …

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COALMOD-World: A Model to Assess International Coal Markets until 2030

Haftendorn, Clemens; Holz, Franziska; Hirschhausen, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

trade ows and investments in production and transport infrastructure until 2030. "COALMOD-World" is an equilibrium model … analysis is until 2030, in 5-year steps. Production costs change endogenously over time. Moreover, endogenous investments are … included based on a net present value optimization approach and and the shadow prices of capacities constraints. Investments …

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How Emission Certificate Allocations Distort Fossil Investments: The German Example

Pahle, Michael; Fan, Lin; Schill, Wolf-Peter - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Despite political activities to foster a low-carbon energy transition, Germany currently sees a considerable number of new coal power plants being added to its power mix. There are several possible drivers for this "dash for coal", but it is widely accepted that windfall profits gained through...

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Determinants of Chinese Direct Investments in the European Union

Dreger, Christian; Schüler-Zhou, Yun; Schüller, Margot - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

greenfield investments (GIs) and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). The findings indicate that market size and trade relationships …

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Drivers of Private Equity Investment in CEE and Western European Countries

Bernoth, Kerstin; Colavecchio, Roberta; Sass, Magdolna - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010

in both regions. We find similarities as well as differences in the driving forces of private equity investments in …

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Outward FDI and Domestic Investment

Herzer, Dierk; Schrooten, Mechthild - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines the impact of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) on domestic investment by applying co-integration techniques to macroeconomic time series data for the United Sates and Germany. We show that the two countries differ: In the case of the US, OFDI has positive long-run...

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Firm Investment and Financial Frictions

Baum, Christopher F.; Caglayan, Mustafa; Talavera, Oleksandr - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

In this paper we investigate the analytical and empirical linkages between firms' capital investment behavior and financial frictions arising from asymmetric information, proxied by firms' liquidity and degree of uncertainty. Measures of intrinsic and extrinsic uncertainty are derived from...

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