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Openness, Intermediate Imports and Growth
Kopp, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...
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Welfare effects of intellectual property in North-South model of endogenous growth with comparative advantage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper develops a model for analyzing the costs and benefits of intellectual property enforcement in LDCs. The North is more productive than the South and is the only source of innovator. There are two types of goods, and each bloc has a comparative advantage in producing a specific type of...
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The emergence of multinational enterprises: Simulation results
Kleinert, Jörn - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
In the last decades, foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased strongly among industrialised countries. U.S. companies were the first to set up foreign affiliates followed later by companies from smaller industrialised countries. This paper develops a general equilibrium model of...
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Learning How to Export
Segerstrom, Paul S.; Stepanok, Ignat - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper, we present a standard quality ladders endogenous growth model with one significant new assumption, that it takes time for firms to learn how to export. We show that this model without Melitz-type assumptions can account for all the evidence that the Melitz (2003) model was...
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Endogenous Market Structure and the Gains from Foreign Direct Inverstment
Santis, Roberto A. De; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999
is welfare improving for the foreign country, but welfare declining for the domestic country. If only multinational firms … are competitive, the impact on market structure and the welfare of the domestic country is indeterminate, whereas the … welfare of the foreign country improves. By contrast, if the oligopolistic industry is located in both countries' then FDI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700568
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Netzwerkeffekte: eine neue Begründung für die strategische Handelspolitik?
Gröhn, Andreas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
produetdifferentiation with network effects. Within this framework, Strategie trade policy can improve the welfare in the producing countries …
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Trade, Foreign direct investment, and multinational enterprises in a general equilibrium model
Koop, Michael J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
Trade, foreign direct investment and the existence of multinational enterprises are often analyzed in separate model, which are frequently based on mutually exclusive assumptions. The paper integrates several features of international economic exchange into one general equilibrium model. This...
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The Influence of Capital Market Integration on Production and Market Structures
Koop, Michael J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
capital flows as well as national and global welfare. In order to facilitate the analysis of the integration process, three …
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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
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...
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Multinational Firms, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages
Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005
among suppliers thereby leading to a decline in the level of backward linkages and local welfare. With its emphasis on the …
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