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Firm efficiency and Input market integration Trade versus FDI

Imbruno, Michele - FIW - 2015

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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Effekte der österreichischen EU-Mitgliedschaft

Breuss, Fritz - FIW - 2013

Das Kernelement der Europäischen Integration, der „Binnenmarkt“, feiert heuer das 20-jährige Bestehen. Österreich hat seit dem Beitritt zur EU im Jahr 1995 an allen vertiefenden Schritten der EU-Integration teilgenommen. Nicht nur politisch ist Österreich durch die EU-Mitgliedschaft...

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Sorting It Out: Technical Barriers to Trade and Industry Productivity

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin - FIW - 2008

economies of scale to sort out the rich interactions between TBT reform, input diversity, firm-level productivity, and aggregate … productivity. We calibrate the model for 14 industries in order to clarify the theoretical ambiguities. Overall, our results tend …

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Trade and Productivity: The Family Connection Redux

Prettner, Klaus; Strulik, Holger - FIW - 2015

We investigate the effects of human capital accumulation on trade and productivity by integrating a micro …

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Dynamic Selection and the New Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms

Sampson, Thomas - FIW - 2013

spillovers from incumbent firms to entrants cause the productivity threshold for firm survival to grow over time as competition …

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TTIP und ihre Auswirkungen auf Österreich

Breuss, Fritz - FIW - 2014

Mit einem umfassenden und in der Öffentlichkeit höchst umstrittenen Handels- und Investitionsabkommen (TTIP) wollen die EU und die USA die größte Freihandelszone der Welt errichten und damit Wachstum und Beschäftigung stimulieren. Zwar prognostizieren alle bisherigen TTIP-Studien positive...

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Strategic Trade Policy in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium

Colacicco, Rudy - FIW - 2013

In a two-country general oligopolistic equilibrium model, I study how cross-sector strategic trade policy affects wages, countrywide profits, and welfare. Firms face resource constraints and wages are simultaneously determined. Relative to free trade, cross-sector protectionism generates a...

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China's Pure Exporter Subsidies

Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - FIW - 2013

One third of Chinese exporters sell more than ninety percent of their production abroad. We argue that this distinctive pattern is attributable to the widespread use of subsidies that require firms to export the vast majority of their output. We study this type of subsidy in the context of a...

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Asymmetric trade liberalisation, sector heterogeneity andinnovation

Ruiz, Antonio Navas - FIW - 2013

autarky to free trade promotes innovation and productivity growth in those sectors which are initially less competitive … productivity divergence: firms that are located in industries with greater exposure to foreign trade, invest a greater amount in R …&D contributing to industry productivity growth. Finally the paper outlines the importance of reallocation effects within industry and …

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Trade Patterns and Export Pricing Under Non-CES Preferences

Kichko, Sergey; Kokovin, Sergey; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - FIW - 2013

We develop a two-factor, two-sector trade model of monopolistic competition with variable elasticity of substitution. Firm profit and firm size may increase or decrease with market integration depending on the degree of asymmetry between countries. The country in which capital is relatively...

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