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Offshoring, Domestic Outsourcing, and Productivity: Evidence for a Number of European Countries

Schwörer, Tillmann - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

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A nonparametric panel data approach to the cyclical dynamics of price-cost margins

Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

By using nonparametric and panel data econometrics, this paper re-assesses the effect of both the current level of economic activity and of future expected demand on the dynamics of the price mark-up over marginal cost in US manufacturing industries from 1958 to 1996. Consistently with previous...

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Academia-Industry Linkages and the Role of Active Innovation Policies – Firm-level Evidence in Hong Kong

LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper analyses academia-industry linkages of the Hong Kong (HK) electronics small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and investigates the role of active innovation policies in this regard. It uses data collected from a questionnaire survey in HK, focusing on three main academia-industry...

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Distribution of Labour Productivity in Japan over the Period 1996-2006

Souma, Wataru; Ikeda, Yuichi; Iyetomi, Hiroshi; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

The distribution of labour productivity is investigated by analyzing the longitudinal micro-level data set which … function of the second kind is applied to explain the distribution. We calculate marginal labour productivity by using the … characterizing high productivity range and low productivity range, we show that inequality of low productivity range is larger than …

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Scope for Export-Led Growth in a Large Emerging Economy: Is India Learning by Exporting?

Tabrizy, Saleh S.; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

firm-level productivity paths differ between firms with varying degrees of exposure to international trade in India, the … productivity and a proxy for labor productivity, we find significant ex-ante differences in productivity between exporters and non …-exporters and no difference in the ex-post productivity gains. These findings suggest that even in a large emerging economy with …

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Do Active Innovation Policies Matter? – Findings from a Survey on the Hong Kong Electronics SMEs

LIU, Wan-Hsin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

Since 1997 the Hong Kong (HK) government has markedly changed its role from being a mere institution provider to being an active innovation promoter. As such, it has actively implemented innovation policies that focus especially on creating new funding opportunities and establishing several R&D...

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The effect of grant receipt on start-up size: Evidence from plant level data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

In this paper we use plant level data on the start-up size of new plant entries and detailed information on the grants received by such plants in order to investigate whether grant receipt encourages plants to start-up with more employment than without support. The data relate to manufacturing...

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Knowing where organic markets move next: An analysis of developing countries in the pineapple market

Kleemann, Linda - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

As consumers' demand for organic products grows, selling organic products potentially opens up profitable market participation options for farmers in developing countries. This paper studies two aspects of profitability for the producers. It uses hedonic demand theory and empirical analysis to...

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Evolutionary model of the bank size distribution

Kaldasch, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

An evolutionary model of the bank size distribution is presented based on the exchange and expansion of deposit money. In agreement with empirical results the derived size distribution is lognormal with a power law tail. The key idea of the theory is to regard the creation of money as a slow...

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A Study of Pricing Evolution in the Online Toy Market

Yang, Zhenlin; Gan, Lydia; Tang, Fang-Fang - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

We examine the pricing trends in the online toy markets by using panel data regression models with error components and serial correlation. Our results indicate that both online branch of multi-channel retailers (OBMCRS) and dotcoms charge similar prices on average, and that over time their...

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