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Evolution of competition in Vietnam industries over the recent economic transition

Doan, Tinh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the … author investigates the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the price-cost margin (PCM … competition across selected industries in Vietnam in the last decade using firm-level data from the Vietnam Enterprise Census (VEC …

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

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

The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on...

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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 contains detailed financial condition of large numbers of Japanese companies over the period 1996-2006. The generalized beta function of the second kind is applied to explain the...

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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

The ongoing debate of the literature on learning-by-exporting is whether the conspicuously stellar performance of exporters relative to non-exporters can be, at least partially, attributed to the horizonwidening interaction with foreign consumers and learning of cost-efficient and quality...

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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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Centralized vs. Decentralized Wage Formation: The Role of Firms’ Production Technology

Hirsch, Boris; Merkl, Christian; Müller, Steffen; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper is the first to show theoretically and empirically how firms' production technology affects the choice of their preferred wage formation regime. Our theoretical framework predicts, first, that the larger the total factor productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for...

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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany

Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

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Some Surprising Facts about Working Time Accounts and the Business Cycle

Balleer, Almut; Gehrke, Britta; Merkl, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper reveals that German firms with working time accounts (WTAs) show a similar separation and hiring behavior in response to revenue changes as firms without WTAs. This finding casts doubt on the popular hypothesis that WTAs were the key driver of the unusually small increase in German...

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