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Harms, Philipp - 2009

Recent contributions on off shoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production...

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International Inflation Spillovers Through Input Linkages

Auer, Raphael - 2017

We document that observed international input-output linkages contribute substantially to synchronizing producer price inflation (PPI) across countries. Using a multi-country, industry-level dataset that combines information on PPI and exchange rates with international and domestic input-output...

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The Globalisation of Inflation : The Growing Importance of Global Value Chains

Auer, Raphael - 2017

Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...

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How Firms Export : Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions

Manova, Kalina - 2016

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade –...

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Trade and Tasks : An Exploration Over Three Decades in Germany

Becker, Sascha O. - 2015

This paper combines representative worker-level data that cover time-varying job-level task characteristics of an economy over a long time span with sector-level bilateral trade data for merchandize and services. We carefully create longitudinally consistent workplace characteristics from the...

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Creative Destruction and Productive Preemption

Norback, Pehr-Johan - 2013

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that inventions of higher quality are …

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Innovation, Trade, and Finance

Egger, Peter H. - 2013

This paper proposes a model where heterogeneous firms choose whether to undertake R&D or not. Innovative firms are more productive, have larger investment opportunities and lower own funds for necessary tangible continuation investments than non-innovating firms. As a result, they are...

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Legal Institutions, Innovation and Growth

Anderlini, Luca - 2014

We analyze the relationship between legal institutions, innovation and growth. We compare a rigid (law set ex … welfare, amount of innovation and output growth at intermediate stages of technological development - periods when legal …

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Entrepreneurial Innovations and Taxation

Haufler, Andreas - 2014

-return characteristics of the selected innovation project and the mode of commercialization chosen by entrepreneurs (market entry versus sale …

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Persistence of Politicians and Firms' Innovation

Bellettini, Giorgio - 2014

We empirically investigate whether the persistence of politicians in political institutions affects the innovation …' innovation activity. However, once the causal effect is isolated by means of instrumental variables, using death of politicians … persistence and the probability of process innovation. This finding is consistent with the view that political stability may …

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