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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: the Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import … firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a …
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Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms
Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to … is an economically important and statistically significant determinant of the likelihood that a firm will export and …/or import. Foreign ownership raises the propensity to export by over 17 and the propensity to import by more than 13 percentage …
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The Single Currency's Effects on Eurozone Sectoral Trade: Winners and Losers?
Vicarelli, Claudio; De Santis, Roberta; De Nardis, Sergio - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
of an augmented gravity equation. Following the most recent econometric literature, we apply a ?System GMM? dynamic panel … pro-trade effects are mainly concentrated in scale intensive industries. Industrial specialization and location of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005083340
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Multinationals in Sub-Saharan Africa: Domestic Linkages and Institutional Distance
Pérez-Villar, Lucia; Seric, Adnan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper analyzes the role of institutional distance in the establishment of domestic linkages by multinational enterprises in a cross- section of 19 Sub- Saharan countries. Investors’ familiarity with formal and informal procedures in the host country lowers uncertainty and facilitates...
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Forecast Evaluation of Explanatory Models of Financial Return Variability
Sucarrat, Genaro - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
A practice that has become widespread is that of comparing forecasts of financial return variability obtained from discrete time models against high frequency estimates based on continuous time theory. In explanatory financial return variability modelling this raises several methodological and...
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Macroeconomic Forecasts and the Nature of Economic Shocks in Germany
Döpke, Jörg - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
The paper investigates the sources of macroeconomic forecast errors in Germany. The predictions of the so-called "six leading" research institutes are analyzed. The forecast errors are discussed within an aggregate demand/supply scheme. Structural Vector Autoregressive Models are estimated to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755268
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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
We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate … 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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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports: Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886982
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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
This paper investigates both the effects of domestic monetary policy and external shocks on fundamental macroeconomic variables in six fast growing emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and Turkey - denoted hereafter as BRICS_T. The authors adopt a structural VAR model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956075
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Globalisation and Employment in the EU Electrical Industry: A Case Study with Emphasis on Germany
Diehl, Markus - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000
The development of production, prices and employment in the EU electrical industry between the mid-1970s and the mid-1990s is analysed in order to test the hypothesis that the competitive pressure from low-income countries has led to the observed decline of the employment share of low-skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755130