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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
process innovation rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320182
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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
different innovation outcomes, using a firm-level dataset collected in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) in China. It also … innovation sales and to create new knowledge qualified for patenting. In addition to own R&D activities, they rely on sourcing … knowledge from different sets of sources to support them to carry out the last three types of innovation outcomes …
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How Do Firms Organize Trade? Evidence from Ghana
Krüger, Jens - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
The literature on firm heterogeneity in international trade posits that only the most productive firms become exporters (Melitz 2003). However, empirical findings suggest that also firms that are not highly productive export. This paper investigates empirically how firms organize their export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566170
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Regional Evidence on the Finance - Growth Nexus
Vaona, Andrea - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
The Finance-Growth Nexus is a classical source of debate among economists. This contribution offers regional evidence on this issue in order to see if it can meet the data within a 140 years old economic union -- Italy -, in the ideal context for its main competitor - New Economic Geography -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818797
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Productivity and the Product Scope of Multi-product Firms: A Test of Feenstra-Ma
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of “cannibalizing” sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886899
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Bridging the gap between horizontal and vertical merger simulation: Modifications and extensions of PCAID
Bush, C. Anthony - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
A general theoretical and empirical framework is developed for assessing the potential of a vertically integrated firm to foreclose downstream competitors. Using this framework a policymaker may also evaluate the empirical welfare effects from a vertically integrated firm raising rivals' costs....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956119
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Where do new firms locate? The effects of agglomeration on the formation and scale of operations of new firms in Punjab
Haroon, Maryiam; Chaudhry, Azam - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
The formation of new firms is an important determinant of economic development and the industrial organization literature highlights agglomeration as one of the main factors affecting the formation and scale of operations of new firms. This paper is one of the first to use developing country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956131
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Vertical Production Networks: Evidence from France
Wagner, Laurent; Nayman, Laurence; Fouquin, Michel - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007
This paper investigates the determinants of intra-firm trade of multinational firms located in France, using data on French companies. Results on the vertical pattern of production networks differ according to the affiliates? location. Lower wage and transportation costs in the developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083426
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Lobbying: Buying and utilizing access
Mayer, Wolfgang; Mujumdar, Sudesh - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
This paper introduces an alternative to the lobbying literature's standard assumption that money buys policies. Our model - in which influence-seeking requires both money to buy access and managerial time to utilize access - offers three significant benefits. First, it counters criticism that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009652727
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Umweltpolitik und internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit
Schmid, Stefanie U. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
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