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Firm efficiency and Input market integration Trade versus FDI
Imbruno, Michele - FIW - 2015
-level performance, via two channels simultaneously: trade and FDI. We develop a simple theoretical model showing that trade integration … efficiency decline within other firms (losses from domestic input availability). At the same time, FDI integration of input …
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Austrian FDI by main Countries and Industries
Hunya, Gabor - FIW - 2008
. Based on OeNB data we have found no indication for Austrian FDI expanding outside Europe. We only observe a shift of new FDI …Austria is not among the top global investors, but it is an important regional player in Central and Southeast Europe … missed. Looking at the relationship between FDI growth on one hand and labour productivity, capital productivity and …
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The Trade-Productivity Nexus in the European Economy
Foster, Neil; Stöllinger, Roman; Altomonte, Carlo; … - FIW - 2012
This FIW Special – International Economics contains a policy report on the relationship between trade and productivity in the European Economy. The reports consists of three chapters which all mainly deal with empirical evidence from firm level but with each chapter focusing on a specific...
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Firm growth, European industry dynamics and domestic business cycles
Oberhofer, Harald - FIW - 2010
Based on the empirical firm growth literature and on heterogeneous (microeconomic) adjustment models, this paper empirically investigates the impact of European industry fluctuations and domestic business cycles on the growth performance of European firms. Since the implementation of the Single...
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The impact of FDI on firm survival in Italy
Ferragina, Anna; Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo - FIW - 2009
The aim of the analysis is to investigate the impact of inward FDI on Italian manufacturing and services firm survival …
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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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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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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...
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Time-Varying Interdependencies of Tourism and Economic Growth: Evidence from European Countries
Dragouni, Mina; Filis, George; Antonakakis, Nikolaos - FIW - 2013
In this study, we employ the novel measure of a VAR-based spillover index, developed by Diebold and Yilmaz (2012) to investigate the time-varying relationship between tourism and economic growth in selected European countries. Overall, the findings suggest that (i) the tourism-economy...
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The EU-Ukraine trade liberalization: How much do the costs of tariff elimination matter?
Frey, Miriam; Olekseyuk, Zoryana - FIW - 2013
The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant step towards Ukraine’s deeper integration into the world economy, widely expected to result in additional welfare gains. As developing countries face some costs associated...
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