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China’s competition and the export price strategies of developed countries

Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sanfilippo, Marco - FIW - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of Chinese competition on developed countries export prices, with a focus on Italy. After a theoretical discussion of the channels affecting export prices in presence of competitors from low income countries, we estimate the pricing behavior of two major...

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Foreign Trade and FDI in the Austrian Regions – A new methodology to estimate regional trade and an analysis of the crisis effects

Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012

Foreign trade and foreign direct investments (FDI) are key elements for economic development and growth of both a country and its regions. This paper focuses on foreign trade and FDI in Austrian regions (Bundesländer). Unfortunately, data on regional trade in Austria is only available on a very...

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Foreign Trade and FDI in the Austrian Regions – A new methodology to estimate regional trade and an analysis of the crisis effects

Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012

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Aggregation Bias in Trade Elasticities: The Case of Macedonia

Jovanovic, Branimir - FIW - 2013

This paper evaluates the bias which may occur when trade elasticities are estimated using data on aggregate trade, instead of using data on bilateral trade. The exercise is done on the case of Macedonia. Elasticities obtained from aggregate-trade data, using the Autoregressive Distributed Lag...

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Foreign Trade in the Austrian Regions

Römisch, Roman - FIW - 2012

This policy brief introduces a method to estimate foreign trade of the nine Austrian NUTS-2 regions. The basic idea of the method is to disaggregate national foreign trade data to the regional level using national input-output, regional employment and other supplemental data. This allows for the...

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Vertical Intra-Industry Trade: An Empirical Examination of the Austria’s Auto-Parts Industry

Türkcan, Kemal - FIW - 2009

.e. production fragmentation. The increased importance of fragmentation in world trade has created an interest among trade economists … international fragmentation of production process between Austria and its 29 trading partners, is examined and various country …-specific factors suggested by fragmentation literature are tested using newly developed panel econometrics techniques and more recent …

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Structural Estimation of Gravity Models with Path-Dependent Market Entry

Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - FIW - 2011

This paper develops a structural empirical general equilibrium model of aggregate bilateral trade with path dependence of country-pair level exporter status. Such path dependence is motivated through informational costs about serving a foreign market for first-time entry of (firms in) an export...

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Uncertainty and the export decisions of Dutch firms

Creusen, Harold; Lejour, Arjan - FIW - 2011

This paper analyses the export market entry decisions of Dutch firms and their subsequent growth or market exit. Exporters, particularly when entering new markets, have to learn about market conditions and to search for new trade relations under uncertainty. In that sense the paper also...

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International Trade of Bio-Energy Products – Economic Potentials for Austria

Koland, Olivia; Schönhart, Martin; Schmid, Erwin - FIW - 2013

TTRIOPOL studies the role of domestic bioenergy potentials for agriculture, the wider economy and international trade for Austria. In particular, agricultural biomass pro-duction can contribute to significant shares of energy provision in Austria. A detailed scenario is developed to explore the...

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Determinants of the Trade Balance in Industrialized Countries

Falk, Martin - FIW - 2008

This paper investigates the determinants of the trade balance using panel data for 32 industrialized and emerging economies for the period 1990?2007. The results based on fixed effects models and linear mixed models allowing for random slope coefficients, show that the trade balance as a...

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