Similar Search Results

Ebner, Verena; Mumme, Christina; Lueghammer, Wolfgang; … - FIW - 2014

Die vorliegende Studie zum Potenzial der BRICS-Staaten für die österreichische Außenwirtschaft diskutiert in einem ersten Schritt aktuelle makroökonomische Entwicklungen und strukturelle Aspekte der fünf BRICS-Staaten sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. In einem...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856817

Die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der österreichischen Exportwirtschaft: Die Rolle der KMUs

Oberhofer, Harald - FIW - 2014

Für Österreich als kleine offene Volkswirtschaft ist die internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit seiner Un-ternehmen für den wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand entscheidend. Darüber hinaus prägen kleine und mittel-ständische Unternehmen (KMUs) die Struktur der heimischen Wirtschaft. Somit sind sie...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124383

Competitiveness and Specialisation of the Austrian Export Sector - A Constant-Market-Shares Analysis

Skriner, Edith - FIW - 2009

, pointing to vulnerability in the Austrian export sector. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005004239

Export Competitiveness of Textile Commodities: A Panel Data Approach

Arora, Tarun - FIW - 2015

The Paper assesses the export competitiveness of top fifteen textile products (different for each export destination …) at 6 digit level of HS classification exported by India to top seven textile export destinations by using both price and … income export elasticities. The export elasticities are estimated using dynamic panel data approach for each country …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011119851

Distributional effects of preferential and multilateral trade liberalization: the case of Paraguay

Casabianca, Elizabeth Jane - FIW - 2012

In this paper I apply Porto (2006) to Paraguay using household level data. The aim is to assess the distributional impact of the preferential and multilateral trade liberalization in a small member country. I also follow Nicita (2009) assuming incomplete pass-through on prices of traded goods...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856786

A Dynamic North-South Model of Demand-Induced Product Cycles

Foellmi, Reto; Hanslin, Sandra; Kohler, Andreas - FIW - 2015

This paper presents a dynamic North-South general-equilibrium model where households have non-homothetic preferences. Innovation takes place in a rich North while norms in a poor South imitate products manufactured in North. Introducing non-homothetic preferences delivers a complete...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249422

Unemployment Benefits as Redistribution Scheme of Trade Gains - a Positive Analysis

Pinto, Marco de - FIW - 2012

Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To compensate the losers the government is assumed to introduce unemployment benefits (UB). These benefits are financed by either a wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549201

The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - FIW - 2012

A fundamental question in monopolistic competition theory is whether the market allocates resources efficiently. This paper generalizes the Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz framework to heterogeneous firms, addressing when the market provides optimal quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549203

Exchange rate volatility, financial constraints and trade: empirical evidence from Chinese firms

Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - FIW - 2013

This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … that the value exported by firms, as well as their probability of entering new export markets, decrease for destinations …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010631748

The Interplay between International Trade and Technological Change and the wage inequality in the OECD Countries

Stojanovska, Nikolina; Cuyvers, Ludo - FIW - 2010

We estimate the impact of international trade and of trade-induced technological change on the wage inequality in the OECD countries, by estimating a two-stage mandated-wage regression. From our estimation we find no evidence on the Stolper-Samuelson effect of trade with the developing and newly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008619343