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Costs of trade and self-selection into exporting and importing: The case of Turkish manufacturing firms

Dalgic, Basak; Fazlioglu, Burcu; Gasiorek, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. In addition the authors consider the role of intensive and extensive margins with...

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The Labor Market Effects of Outsourcing Parts and Components: Adverse Cournot Competition

Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper contributes to Hübler (2008) who analyses a partial equilibrium model of outsourcing with Cournot … manufactured by a Western (outsourcing) or Eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). The paper asks the question how …

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A Simple Model of Outsourcing with Cournot Competition

Hübler, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

The paper analyses a partial equilibrium outsourcing model with Cournot competition in intermediate good production …. Final production is located in western Europe, whereas the intermediate good can be manufactured by a western (outsourcing …) or eastern European supplier (offshore outsourcing). Interregional production (factor) allocation depending on factor …

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Price Bargaining, the Persistence Puzzle, and Monetary Policy

Wesselbaum, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

In the recent New Keynesian literature a standard assumption is that the price for which an intermediate good is sold to the final good firm is equal to the marginal costs of the intermediate good firm. However, there is empirical evidence that this need not to hold. This paper introduces price...

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The real versus the financial economy: A global tale of stability versus volatility

Alfarano, Simone; Förster, Niels; Milaković, Mishael; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

The question how the real and the financial side of a capitalist economy relate to each other has been a frequently recurring topic in the history of economic thought. Our paper addresses this question from the viewpoint that capital ultimately seeks returns from its perpetual reallocation and...

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Factors Affecting Location Decisions of the Economic Headliners – Exporters and Foreign-Owned Firms – in China

Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Foreign-owned firms are frequently viewed as an important source of new capital, access to world markets and employment generation and there exist numerous studies on the determinants of FDI flows and the role of incentives designed to attract FDI. Similarly important for economic growth are...

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Access to Finance and Exporting Behavior in Transition Countries

Bernard, Alex; Stabilito, Augusto; Yoo, Julien Donghoon - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We analyze the link between firms’ access to finance and their decisions to enter and exit the export market. We employ the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted in 2005 and 2008-2009 to 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that more...

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Firm Heterogeneity, Industry Characteristics and Types of FDI: The Case of German FDI in the Czech Republic

Görg, Holger; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...

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Modes of International Sourcing and the Competitiveness of Firms: An Analysis of European Survey Data

Neureiter, Marcus; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

outsourcing as possible determinants of market, cost and knowledge-related aspects of the competitiveness of firms. We find that …

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Market Concentration and Business Survival in Static v Dynamic Industries

Burke, Andrew; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We propose that the effect of market concentration on firm survival is different according to whether an industry is static (low entry and exit) or dynamic. In our empirical analysis we find support for this hypothesis. Industry concentration rates reduce the survival of new plants but only in...

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