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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011220347
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A Prototype Model of EU's 2007 Enlargement
Breuss, Fritz - FIW - 2007
EU's 2007 enlargement by Bulgaria and Romania is evaluated by applying a simple macroeconomic integration model able to encompass as many of the theoretically predicted integration effects possible. The direct integration effects of Bulgaria and Romania spill-over to EU15, including Austria and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005146598
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Time zones matter: The impact of distance and time zones on services trade
Christen, Elisabeth - FIW - 2012
Using distance and time zone differences as a measure for coordination costs between service suppliers and consumers, we employ a Hausman-Taylor model for services trade by foreign affiliates. Given the need for proximity in the provision of services, factors like distance place a higher cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549205
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Bilateral FDI Potentials for Austria
Egger, Peter - FIW - 2008
Trade economists have for long considered gravity models to estimate unexhausted potentials for bilateral trade. Similar to the discrepancy between "normal" and "actual" bilateral trade, one may ask the question about the difference between "normal" and actual bilateral multinational activity....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008477133
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International Outsourcing and Productivity Growth
Falk, Martin; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - FIW - 2008
This study investigates the impact of international outsourcing to low? and high income countries on total factor productivity growth based on manufacturing industry data for 14 OECD countries from 1995 ? 2000. We find that the broad measure of international outsourcing of material inputs to low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008477134
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East Asia in World Trade: The Decoupling Fallacy, Crisis, and Policy Challenges
Athukorala, Prema-chandra; Kohpaiboon, Archanun - FIW - 2010
This paper examines the export experience of China and other East Asian economies in the aftermaths of the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554215
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China’s competition and the export price strategies of developed countries
Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sanfilippo, Marco - FIW - 2012
destination markets according to their income level. Results show that export competition from China has affected Italian price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856802
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Fishing in the same pool: Export strengths and competitiveness of China and CESEE at the EU-15 Market
Schitter, Christian; Silgoner, Maria; Steiner, Katharina; … - FIW - 2012
We investigate the impact of the emergence of China as a global competitor on the trade performance of Central, Eastern … points against cut-throat competition between CESEE and China. The decomposition of export growth along the extensive versus … supplier related competitiveness effect. Both the CESEE region and China successfully intensified their trade linkages above …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550677
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Do Multinational Enterprises push up the Wages of Domestic Firms in the Italian Manufacturing Sector?
Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo; Sica, Edgardo - FIW - 2012
The present paper aims to test the impact of incoming Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) on local wages in the Italian manufacturing sector by using firm level data from 2002 to 2007. Results initially show the lack of wage spillovers at both horizontal and vertical level, meaning that the effects...
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How much do technological gap, firm size, and regional characteristics matter for the absorptive capacity of Italian enterprises?
Imbriani, Cesare; Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo; … - FIW - 2011
The absorptive capacity represents the ability of enterprises to efficiently absorb and internalise knowledge from outside: it represents the link between firms’ capabilities to implement new products and the external stock of technological opportunities, such as those spilled-out from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856796