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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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Importing, Exporting and the Productivity of Services Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
Abstract In this paper we examine productivity differences between trading and non-trading firms in the services sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699844
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Importing, Exporting and Performance in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Firms
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
This paper examines productivity differences between internationally trading and non-trading firms using data on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820186
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Trade in Services: Cross-Border Trade vs. Commercial Presence. Evidence of Complementarity
Lennon, Carolina - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009
This paper investigates empirically the relationship between trade and FDI in services. Using bilateral data on US foreign affiliates' sales and trade as well as data on barriers to FDI, the relationship is investigated using different panel techniques, including fixed effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008503129
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Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services
Fillat-Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph F.; Wörz, Julia - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009
Working with a panel dataset of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the services sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model to both services trade and commercial presence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005044996
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International Trade and Economic Diversification: Patterns and Policies in the Transition Economies
Landesmann, Michael - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2008
This report counter-poses the patterns of trade specialization and trade diversification of two groups of economies the new member states of the European Union, NMS, and the follower countries of the Soviet Union, the NIS (Newly Independent States). It is shown that the NIS export structures are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523464
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Trade in Goods and Services between the EU and the BRICs
Havlik, Peter; Pindyuk, Olga; Stöllinger, Roman - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009
This policy paper, prepared as part of the Background Study for the European Competitiveness Report 2009, analyses the external trade in goods and services between the EU and the BRICs. The paper starts with the analysis of the global position of the EU and the BRICs in world trade (using the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008458155
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Skills and Industrial Competitiveness
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; Stehrer, Robert; … - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009
, productivity growth and exports. This and the next section represent new research effort in that a disaggregated database (by NACE …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008509353
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South-North Integration, Outsourcing and Skills
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2009
particular we look at the role of outsourcing in the process of trade integration of these countries. Further we discuss the … particularly for processed inputs and parts production are interpreted in a catching-up framework combined with outsourcing High … hypothesis that geographic proximity is important for outsourcing activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004997974
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Trade Structures, Quality Differentiation and Technical Barriers in CEE-EU Trade
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2002
In this paper we attempt to quantify the incidence of different types of technical barriers to trade (TBTs) on trade structures between seven Central and Eastern European countries (Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Bulgaria, and Romania) and the European Union at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649633