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Outsourcing, Foreign Ownership and Productivity: Evidence from UK Establishment Level Data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …
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Intermediation in Foreign Trade: When Do Exporters Rely on Intermediaries?
Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Trabold, Harald; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e.g. transport) and fixed export costs (e.g. market access) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068676
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Exports, International Investment, and Plant Performance: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Test
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper compares the performance of purely domestic plants, domestic exporters and domestic multinationals. For our empirical analysis we utilise a non-parametric approach based on the principle of first order stochastic dominance. We find that the distributions for multinationals dominate...
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Absorptive Capacities and the Impact of FDI on Economic Growth
Farkas, Beatrice - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper analyzes the necessary local conditions required for the existence of positive spillovers from multinationals' entry and it consists of a unified study of absorptive capacities. We start from the idea that FDI speeds up the diffusion of technologies across countries. Yet, the question...
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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies
Pflüger, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a...
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Tariffs and Firm-Level Heterogeneous Fixed Export Costs
Jorgensen, Jan G.; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005
Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This note shows, however, that this added realism also implies that there may exist a positive...
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A Simple, Analytically Solvable, Chamberlinian Agglomeration Model
Pflüger, Michael - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model, contains two agglomerative forces. However, in contrast to that model, the present model is analytically solvable. Moreover, the present model exhibits a 'supercritical pitchfork...
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Cartel Stability and Economic Integration
Schröder, Philipp J. H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper investigates the effect of economic integration on the ability of firms to maintain a collusive understanding about staying out of each other's markets. The paper distinguishes among different types of trade costs: ad valorem, unit, fixed. It is shown that for a sufficient reduction...
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Declining Output Volatility in Germany: Impulses, Propagation, and the Role of Monetary Policy
Fritsche, Ulrich; Kuzin, Vladimir - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
This paper investigates the effect of economic integration on the ability of firms to maintain a collusive understanding about staying out of each other's markets. The paper distinguishes among different types of trade costs: ad valorem, unit, fixed. It is shown that for a sufficient reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068976
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Productivity and the Natural Rate of Unemployment
Slacalek, Jiri - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2004
(NAIRU) by using information contained in the trend of productivity growth. My approach enhances the recently proposed model … to alternativestatistical assumptions. In economic terms, the productivity-augmented model generates a more realistic … productivity growth trend. I find support for the "level" hypothesis in both the US and international data. …
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