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Greasing the Wheels of International Commerce: How Services Facilitate Firms' International Sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of … international sourcing of materials depends on a firm's productivity and the availability of local services. These predictions are … materials to sales. In addition, we find evidence that services grease the wheels of international commerce: A greater …

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Greasing the wheels of international commerce: how services facilitate firms' international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

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Service Trade Liberalization as a Handmaiden of Competitiveness in Manufacturing: An Industrialized or Developing Country Issue?

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

intermediate services against market entry of new suppliers. By scanning the empirical literature on effective rates of protection … important intermediate services like banking and telecom and thus these industries can be instrumental to help downstream … services will further rise due to various EU-policy rooted factors. As a result, protection rates of services in individual EU …

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Assessing the Effects of the Terrorist Attacks on the U.S. Economy

Strauß, Hubert - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001

combined with economic reasoning (on the non storability of services, the role of air transports and on the complementarity … between services). As to the indirect effects, I assume that the downturn in sentiment will be severe but short-lived. Under …

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Assessing EU Concessions for Service Trade Liberalization in the Doha Round. What Frequency Indices Suggest

Langhammer, Rolf J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

While the EU is a customs union in merchandise trade (goods), it has not yet reached this stage of integration in service trade. How far the EU is from a customs union in service trade is very difficult to assess because of the nonquantitative nature of trade restrictions in this sector. The...

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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

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...

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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

services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross …

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Do Real Exchange Rate Appreciations Matter for Growth?

Bussière, Matthieu; Lopez, Claude; Tille, Cédric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on "currency wars". However, in spite of its prevalence in the...

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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

We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of countries it trades with. We construct a simple theoretical model of how foreign ownership may affect these extensive margins of exports and take this model to data from Germany, one...

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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

. Increased trade and investment flows, particularly related to network services, would be of great benefit to the sub …

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