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Why do within firm-product export prices differ across markets?
Görg, Holger; Halpern, László; Muraközy, Balász - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
In this paper we analyze the relationship between gravity variables and f.o.b. export unit values using Hungarian firm …-product-destination data. By taking firm-product level selection into account we show that export unit values increase with distance even for …: first, firms may export different quality versions of the same product to different markets. Secondly, directly exporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008562522
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076112
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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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The DART general equilibrium model: A technical description
Springer, Katrin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998
This paper provides a technical description of the Dynamic Applied Regional Trade (DART) General Equilibrium Model. The DART model is a recursive dynamic, multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model. All regions are fully specified and linked by bilateral trade flows. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367365
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Migration, trade and unemployment
Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011
A source of anxiety of policy makers and the public in general is the detrimental impact of globalization and immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify the supposed negative effect of immigration on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009372166
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Sustainability and international trade in resources
Klepper, Gernot; Stähler, Frank - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1995
This paper discusses environmental policies which aim at a sustainable use of domestic resources which are mobile. It assumes that one country introduces such a policy but the other country does not. If a resource is mobile, strict domestic environmental policies may increase the resource...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276121
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Wechselkursunsicherheit und Außenhandel: Eine Analye der theoretischen Literatur
Fischer, Malte - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997
The impact of exchange rate uncertainty on international trade has been discussed controversially in economic policy and theory for a long time. The paper surveys the theoretical investigations on this topic. The early modeis which analyse the influence of exchange rate uncertainty on trade,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009276144
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Die Preisbildung im westdeutschen Außenhandel: Eine empirische Analyse
Fischer, Malte - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1996
error correction modeis are applied. Export prices turn out to be mainly determined by prices for concurrent goods proiduced … abroad, whereas unit labor costs and the nominal exchange-rate of the D-Mark only have minor impacts on export prices. Import … export and import prices to changes of the exogenous variables. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009277725
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Why should sub-Saharan Africa care about the Doha development round?
Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Al Doyaili, Sarah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956038
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Monetary policy shocks and macroeconomic variables: Evidence from fast growing emerging economies
Ivrendi, Mehmet; Yildirim, Zekeriya - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
variables in six fast growing emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Turkey - denoted hereafter as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956075