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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...
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Trade in Services: Note on the Measurement and Quality of Data Sources
Woerz, Julia; Pindyuk, Olga - FIW - 2008
This note gives a comprehensive overview of the currently available international databases on trade in services. Notwithstanding problems in data collection arising from the very wide definition of trade in services (i.e. the four GATS modes in contrast to what is traditionally considered as...
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Bilateral FDI Potentials for Austria
Egger, Peter - FIW - 2008
than log-linear models to specify "normal" FDI and obtain estimates of unexhausted FDI potentials. I use panel data on …
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AUSTRIA 2020: The impact of medium-term global trends on the Austrian economy
Christie, Edward; Francois, Joseph; Holzner, Mario; … - FIW - 2010
This study quantifies possible impacts of medium-term structural changes in the global economy on the Austrian economy. Emphasis is placed on the effects of continued medium term growth in emerging markets, especially in Asia and Latin America, on the structure of the Austrian economy. The...
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Tourismus im Spannungsfeld der internationalen Konjunktur- und Wachstumsdynamik
Smeral, Egon - FIW - 2012
Da der Tourismus im Allgemeinen zeitverzögert reagiert, zeigt sich die Verschlechterung der wirtschaftlichen Situation in Europa noch nicht deutlich in den internationalen Tourismusdaten des Jahres 2012. Die derzeitige Lage im österreichischen Tourismus lässt sich so beschreiben, dass sich...
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The Extent, Characteristics and Impacts of FDI and Multinational Firm Activities - A Firm Level Analysis
Falk, Martin; Wolfmayr, Yvonne - FIW - 2010
The study examines the impact of Austrian outward foreign direct investments (FDI) on home based parent company employment. The analysis is based on the AMADEUS firm-level database and an improved methodology by applying matching methods and the difference in difference estimator. In this way we...
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