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domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …
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investigates the claim that German public export credit guarantees (Hermes guarantees) mitigate this friction to trade flows and … importing country in order to evaluate the effect of export guarantees. The idea behind export promotion through public export … exports. As a consequence, firms' export activities are limited in the absence of insurance provision. Using a novel data set …
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Gains from productivity and knowledge transmission arising from the presence of foreign firms has received a good deal of empirical attention, but micro-foundations for this mechanism are weak . Here we focus on production by foreign experts who may train domestic unskilled workers who work with...
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Modern production processes often involve several sequential stages which are performed in many different countries. This pattern of vertical specialization does not only affect trade between countries but it is also of importance for foreign direct investment (FDI). In this paper, we therefore...
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be important factors for the export performance. Against this background the prospects for the Czech Republic, Hungary …
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We discuss how the welfare ranking of fixed and flexible exchange rate regimes in a New Open Economy Macroeconomics model depends on the interplay between the degree of exchange rate pass-through and the elasticity of substitution between home and foreign goods. We identify combinations of these...
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