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How to Measure Globalisation? A New Globalisation Index (NGI)
Vujakovic, Petra - FIW - 2010
In this article, a new composite globalisation index will be presented. With its 21 variables, it accounts for the … multidimensionality of this phenomenon instead of relying purely on economic indicators. As compared to other existing globalisation … indices, three major innovations are introduced in this New Globalisation Index (NGI). Firstly, five variables that have until …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619339
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A Prototype Model of EU's 2007 Enlargement
Breuss, Fritz - FIW - 2007
EU's 2007 enlargement by Bulgaria and Romania is evaluated by applying a simple macroeconomic integration model able to encompass as many of the theoretically predicted integration effects possible. The direct integration effects of Bulgaria and Romania spill-over to EU15, including Austria and...
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Bilateral FDI Potentials for Austria
Egger, Peter - FIW - 2008
Trade economists have for long considered gravity models to estimate unexhausted potentials for bilateral trade. Similar to the discrepancy between "normal" and "actual" bilateral trade, one may ask the question about the difference between "normal" and actual bilateral multinational activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008477133
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Financial Integration in Autocracies: Greasing the Wheel or More to Steal?
Dadasov, Ramin; Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver - FIW - 2010
This paper analyzes the influence of financial integration on institutional quality. We construct a dynamic political-economic model of an autocracy in which a ruling elite uses its political power to expropriate the general population. Although financial integration reduces capital costs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560023
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Convergence of EMU Equity Portfolios
Giofre, Maela - FIW - 2009
This paper demonstrates that, after integration, equity portfolios of countries that joined the European Monetary Union have converged at faster rate than those of NON EMU countries. This outcome can be interpreted as a combination of the convergence of inflation rates and the convergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004241
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Do Multinational Enterprises push up the Wages of Domestic Firms in the Italian Manufacturing Sector?
Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo; Sica, Edgardo - FIW - 2012
The present paper aims to test the impact of incoming Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on local wages in the Italian manufacturing sector by using firm level data from 2002 to 2007. Results initially show the lack of wage spillovers at both horizontal and vertical level, meaning that the effects...
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Internationale Expansion in der pharmazeutischen Industrie Österreichs
Zeller, Christian; Hametner, Andreas; Smet, Koen; … - FIW - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie untersucht die internationale Expansion der Pharmaindustrie in Österreich und stellt diese in den Kontext der zunehmenden weltwirtschaftlichen Verflech-tungen. Die Pharmaindustrie in Österreich besteht einerseits aus den Filialen einiger inter-national tätiger...
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Characteristics of Foreign R&D Strategies of Swiss Firms: Implications for Policy
Hollenstein, Heinz; Jung, Benjamin - FIW - 2008
The aim of the paper is, firstly, to identify a number of strategies Swiss firms pursue by performing foreign R&D, expecting that firms, in many instances, are driven by a combination of several motives (mixed strategies). Secondly, we ask whether foreign and domestic R&D are substitutes or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357631
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Time zones matter: The impact of distance and time zones on services trade
Christen, Elisabeth - FIW - 2012
Using distance and time zone differences as a measure for coordination costs between service suppliers and consumers, we employ a Hausman-Taylor model for services trade by foreign affiliates. Given the need for proximity in the provision of services, factors like distance place a higher cost...
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FDI, International Trade and Union Collusion
Buccella, Domenico - FIW - 2010
This paper deals with firms’ decision related to international activities in a twocountry oligopoly model with a homogeneous product and unionized labor markets. Using a three-stage non-cooperative game with firms being first movers, it is found that firms’ strategies are affected by the...
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