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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015447
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Innovation and Trade with Heterogeneous Firms
Long, Ngo Van; Raff, Horst; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
industry productivity and social welfare. For this purpose we develop a reciprocal dumping model of international trade with … heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D. We identify two effects of trade liberalization on productivity: a direct effect through … low (high) trade costs; (ii) increases expected industry productivity; and (iii) raises expected social welfare if trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755216
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Europe's Revolving Doors: Import Competition and Endogenous Firm Entry Institutions
Lastauskas, Povilas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
The close relationship between politics and enterprises made the revolving door wide open and reinforced business influence on political decisions. The paper analyses relationship between firm entry institutions and import competition inside the EU. Though there is a clear tendency for entry and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886832
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Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence From German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
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Deep trade policy options for Armenia: The importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization
Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
small losses to Armenia primarily due to a loss of productivity from lost varieties of technologies from the Rest of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278224
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Buyer Power in International Markets
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076088
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Globalization, Integration and Regional Specialization
Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
Globalization and European integration are substantially changing the interregional division of labor in Europe and the industrial specialization of European regions, thereby potentially affecting the extent of disparities between countries and regions. This paper reviews several theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700549
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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
This paper discusses the gains from foreign direct investment (FDI) in a two country setting with endogenous markets structures under two alternative locations for the oligopolistic industry. If the oligopolistic industry is located in the domestic country only, we show that market concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700568
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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 order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147191
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European Integration and the Case for Compensatory Regional Policy
Krieger-Boden, Christiane - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
The ongoing process of European integration is likely to increase trade and factor mobility thereby increasing interregional competition and affecting the interregional division of labor. From a theoretical standpoint, rising specialization and polarization of European regions may result from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566199