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Discrepancies between Purchasing Power Parities and Exchange Rates under the Law of One Price: A Puzzle (partly) Explained?
Podkaminer, Leon - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2010
European Comparison Project data (years 1999-2008) are used for an estimation of cross-country systems (AIDS) of consumer demand functions defined over durable and non-durable tradable goods and non-tradable services. General exchange equilibrium models of inter-EU trade generate equalized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008690323
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Capacities and Absorptive Barriers for International R&D Spillovers through Intermediate Inputs
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2014
Abstract Trade in goods and services is likely to be an important channel for international knowledge diffusion. This paper considers the extent of R&D spillovers through intermediate inputs for a sample of up to 40 developed and developing countries. Results suggest that such spillovers are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011118667
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Unit Labour Costs in the New EU Member States
Havlik, Peter - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2005
NMS as well as data on productivity, labour costs and ULC estimates in the manufacturing industry. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820183
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Importing, Productivity and Absorptive Capacity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Firms
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
Our study extends the recent literature on the importer-productivity relationship to a firm-level dataset for sub … human capital, are associated with a stronger relationship between importing and productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820185
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Outward Foreign Direct Investment, Exporting and Firm-Level Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
-parametric tests for manufacturing industries indicate that there is a clear productivity ordering with firms undertaking outward FDI … oriented firms, there is no significant difference in productivity between these two types of firms. Despite this, average … productivity and point estimates from the regression analysis on services firms suggest that the productivity of exporting firms is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820190
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The Importance of Labour Mobility for Spillovers across Industries
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Pöschl, Johannes - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009
This paper addresses the link between productivity and labour mobility. The hypothesis tested in the paper is that … knowledge is then diffused within the new environment creating spillovers and leading to productivity improvements. A … theoretical framework is presented wherein productivity growth is modelled through knowledge acquisition with respect to labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008513087
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Private Consumption and Flourishing Exports Keep the Region on High Growth Track
Astrov, Vasily; Bosnic, Zlatko; Gligorov, Vladimir; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007
productivity and downward pressure on wages from excess supply of labour. The expectation of sustained growth is supporting growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695387
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High Growth Continues, with Risks of Overheating on the Horizon
Astrov, Vasily; Bosnic, Zlatko; Gligorov, Vladimir; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2007
The 1st of May 2007 marked the third anniversary of the accession of the new member states (NMS) to the European Union the economic balance of the first three years is a clear success for the whole EU. Over the period 2001-2003 GDP in the NMS had increased by 3.1% per year on average; over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695388
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Weathering the Global Storm, yet Rising Costs and Labour Shortages May Dampen Domestic Growth
Astrov, Vasily; Gligorov, Vladimir; Havlik, Peter; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2008
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) has just released an analysis of current economic developments in Central, East and Southeast Europe, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine and China (including brief country reports), as well as a medium-term forecast for these countries in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695392
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Broader-based Growth Resilient to Global Uncertainties
Astrov, Vasily; Bosnic, Zlatko; Gligorov, Vladimir; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2006
quarter of 2006 than in 2005. Investment accelerated sharply and industry is proving buoyant. Labour productivity has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009492715