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The BioRegio-contest: a new approach to technology policy and its regional consequences

Dohse, Dirk - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

German technology policy has undergone a remarkable change during the last years. The first thing to mention is that … technology policy in Germany takes a broader view now, focussing not only on knowledge creation (i.e. the invention process per … of regions as reference units for technology policy initiatives. The most prominent example is the BioRegio …

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The diffusion of innovations in the world textile industry: does a country's level of economic development matter?

Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995

This paper provides empirical evidence on how the international diffusion of industrial process innovations is affected by a country's level of economic development. It analyses annual data on newly installed machinery in the spinning and weaving industries, where open-end rotors and shuttleless...

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Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains of Multinational Companies

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper looks at the importance of CSR considerations in the decision taken by a foreign affiliate of a multinational company about the choice of local suppliers. We investigate this empirically using unique firm level data for more than 2,000 foreign owned firms in 19 Sub-Saharan African...

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Foreign ownership structure, technology upgrading and exports: Evidence from Chinese firms

Girma, Surafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Lancheros, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We examine the role of foreign ownership structure in stimulating technology and skill upgrading, and exporting in … owners and Chinese firms can contribute positively to China’s “science and technology take-off” …

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Multinational Firms, Exclusivity, and the Degree of Backward Linkages

Lin, Ping; Saggi, Kamal - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

This paper develops a two-tier oligopoly model in which the entry of a multinational firm results in technology … under which the multinational transfer technology to its suppliers who in turn agree to serve the multinational exclusively …

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Technology Choice and International Trade

Schmidt, Gabriela - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

introduction of technology choice between three alternative production technologies: L, M and H. L is assumed to be the same as … Melitz’s single production technology, while M and H are assumed to be superior production technologies, stemming this … superiority from the fact these technologies substitute the more primitive capital goods used in technology L with newer, updated …

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Corruption and Productivity Firm-level Evidence from the BEEPS Survey

Rosa, Donato De; Gooroochurn, Nishaal; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Using enterprise data for the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS, this study examines the effects of corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency, which is often believed to be closely linked...

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Creating backward linkages from multinationals: Is there a role for financial incentives?

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We investigate whether government subsidies to local input manufacturers encourage procurement from foreign firms. We use a comprehensive panel data of Irish firms from 1983 until 2002. Our data shows a spontaneity about linkages and relative insensitivity to grant aid, although it may be the...

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A Frictionless Model of Job Flows and the Beveridge Curve

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

The Diamond-Mortensen-Pissarides search and matching model is the workhorse of labor macro, but it has difficulty in simultaneously matching the cyclical behavior of job loss and vacancies when taken to the data. By completely ignoring frictions in job creation and focusing instead on firm-level...

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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants. Evidence for Post-War Germany

Bauer, Thomas; Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...

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