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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...
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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...
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This paper highlights the crucial role played by international access to intermediate inputs to explain firm-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration of input market entails an efficiency improvement...
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This report considers the impact of offshoring on labour markets. The report begins by surveying the empirical literature linking offshoring activities to changes in employment and the relative wage and employment of high- to low-skilled workers. The report moves on to consider recent...
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Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...
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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 … destination markets according to their income level. Results show that export competition from China has affected Italian price …
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depend on one key parameter, the dispersion of productivity. I extend the estimation methodology of Costinot et al. (2012) to …
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Die vorliegende Analyse der österreichischen Warenverkehrsbilanz diskutiert sowohl die zeitliche Entwicklung der Handelsbilanz und ihre zugrundeliegenden Faktoren als auch die bilateralen Bilanzen mit den wichtigsten Handelspartnern und die Handelsbilanz in ausgewählten Warengruppen. Mit...
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export values become less meaningful as part of this value is made of imported intermediates. As such, statistics and … than domestic jobs due to significantly lower productivity levels in some of the partner countries. Nevertheless, the … Austria’s trade balance surplus. The strong export performance of Austria is also revealed by the rising share in total EU …
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and more productive than non-exporters. We also find that firm productivity increases with the number of export markets … exporting for export starters. The dynamic analysis reveals that the rate of export exits is high for export starters in the … unique dataset of Austrian service exporting firms over a four-year period to add to this literature. We show that service …
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