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Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...

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Imports, Pass-Through, and the Structure of Retail Markets

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

large when market structure effects are taken into account, and that restrictions on retailing may have significant effects …

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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …

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Do Sources of Knowledge Transfer Matter? – A Firm-level Analysis in the PRD, China

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

This paper investigates whether knowledge transferred from different sources matter differently for carrying out different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also investigates whether companies in the PRD in China tend to...

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Knowledge Transfer in Global Supply Chains: Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa

QU, Zhan; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

We analyze in this paper determinants of voluntary knowledge transfer from foreign investors to their local suppliers in 19 Sub- Saharan African countries using data from the 2010 Africa Investor Survey by UNIDO. We argue that not all backward linkages entail the same potential for spillovers...

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