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Handels- und Finanzarchitektur im Umbruch: Globale Integration und die institutionelle Arbeitsteilung von IWF, Weltbank und WTO

Hefeker, Carsten - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

Das Papier untersucht die Rolle von IWF, Weltbank und WTO und ihre Arbeitsteilung. Ich diskutiere die Gründe für ihre Existenz und ihre ursprünglichen Aufgaben und frage, inwieweit es ihnen gelungen ist, sich den veränderten Bedingungen und ihren neuen Aufgaben anzupassen....

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International Competition and Environmental Expenditures: Empirical Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing Plants

Kaiser, Kai; Schulze, Günther G. - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

reduce competitiveness and that increased levels of foreign direct investment or export-orientation in manufacturing will …

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Public expenditure and international specialisation

Brülhart, Marius; Trionfetti, Federico - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2001

It is widely recognised that public-sector purchasers tend to discriminate in favour of domestic suppliers. We study the consequences of home-biased public procurement on international specialisation. In the theoretical analysis we find two effects. First, a country will specialise in the sector...

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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification

Suedekum, Jens - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

In this paper we describe the development of regional specialisation and geographical concentration in Germany between 1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we neither find compelling evidence for a specialisation...

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Exports and Productivity : A survey of the evidence from firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

, exporters are found to be more productive than non-exporters, and the more productive firms self-select into export markets …

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Exports, foreign direct investment, and productivity: Evidence from German firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2005

This paper presents the first empirical test with German establishment level data of a hypothesis derived by Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either trough exports or foreign direct investment: only the more...

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International Firm Activities and Innovation: Evidence from Knowledge Production Functions for German Firms

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2006

Using a knowledge production framework and a rich set of plant level data this study demonstrates that in Germany firms that are active on international markets as exporters or foreign direct investors do generate more new knowledge than firms which sell on the national market only. These...

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Relationship between Trade Liberalisation, Growth and Balance of Payments in Developing Countries : An Econometric Study

Parikh, Ashok - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

national boundaries. Trade liberalisation could lead to faster import growth than export growth and hence the supply side …

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Relationship between Trade Liberalisation, Economic Growth and Trade Balance : An Econometric Investigation

Parikh, Ashok; Stirbu, Corneliu - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2004

This is a study of 42 developing countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America in which we first examine the impact of trade liberalisation on economic growth, investment share of GDP, openness, trade balance and current accounts (as percentages of GDP). Both panel data and country by country data...

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On the micro-structure of the German export boom: Evidence from establishment panel data, 1995 - 2002

Wagner, Joachim - HWWA Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung - 2003

state, Lower Saxony, to investigate the micro-structure of the recent export boom. Looking at data for 1995/96 to 2001/02 it … is demonstrated that a considerable number of plants starts and stops exporting in each year, but that most of the export … dynamics is due to positive and negative changes of exports in plants that continue to export. A small fraction made of four to …

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