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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic Linkages and Institutional Distance
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper analyzes the role of institutional distance in the establishment of domestic linkages by multinational enterprises in a cross- section of 19 Sub- Saharan countries. Investors’ familiarity with formal and informal procedures in the host country lowers uncertainty and facilitates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886847
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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: the Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import … firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886876
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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports: Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886982
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Outward FDI by Singapore : a different animal?
Ellingsen, Gaute; Likumahuwa, Winfried; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
Singapore?s outward FDI is peculiar in important respects, even though it shares some characteristics with FDI undertaken by traditional investor countries. The focus of FDI in the manufacturing sector on lower-income Asian host countries suggests that the motivations and trade repercussions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010955561
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Relocation, offshoring and labour market repercussions : the case of the German automobile industry in Central Europe
Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The paper raises the proposition that Central Europe?s integration into the international division of labour has added significantly to competitive pressure in the German automobile industry. Based on production and trade data, we trace two dimensions of competitive pressure: relocation of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956002
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Are Newly Exporting Firms more Innovative? Findings from Matched Spanish Innovators
Hanley, Aoife; Monreal-Pérez, Joaquín - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
The prevalence of Internet-based sales by exporters vs. non-exporters is highlighted in a recent World Bank Report (Ferro, 2011) suggesting the use of sophisticated processes when selling overseas. We investigate the count of new process/ product innovations for a group of newly exporting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320182
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Emerging East-West collaborative networks: An appraisal
Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
Although an extensive amount of literature reviews emerging patterns of east-west co-operation, it is not easy to grasp the state of the art. Too many of the books, articles and papers tend to mark the trees rather than to map the forest. The paper analyses recent trends from the point of view...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276078
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Foreign direct investment and trade in transition countries: Tracing links. A sequel
Naujoks, Petra; Schmidt, Klaus-Dieter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995
This paper deals with the interactions between outward investments of western multinationals and export performance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276389
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Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to … is an economically important and statistically significant determinant of the likelihood that a firm will export and …/or import. Foreign ownership raises the propensity to export by over 17 and the propensity to import by more than 13 percentage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208179
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076112