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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Intellectual property rights, product complexity, and the organization of multinational firms

Naghavi, Alireza; Spies, Julia; Toubal, Farid - 2013

This paper studies how the Intellectual Property Right (IPR) regime in destination countries influences the way multinationals structure the international organization of their production. In particular, we explore how multinationals divide tasks of different complexities across countries with...

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Cutting too close? : design protection and innovation in fashion goods

Hackett, Petal Jean - 2012

Continued lobbying by high-end, American designers for intellectual property-type fashion design protection has culminated in the proposed Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prevention Act, intended to introduce EU standards. Using a sequential, 2-firm, vertical differentiation framework,...

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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009

We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...

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Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023

Casual observation suggests that cultural differences play an important role in business transactions, yet systematic evidence on this relationship is scarce. This paper provides a novel investigation of the effect of cultural distance on multinational firms' decisions to integrate their...

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Outsourcing without cost advantages

Milliou, Chrysovalantou - 2023

This paper explores why competing firms can choose to outsource to an external common supplier that does not have a cost advantage in input production. The supplier, through its contract offers, manages to generate asymmetry, to alter product market competition, and to extract profits from the...

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Optimal central bank design : benchmarks for the ECB

Berger, Helge (contributor) - 2006

The paper discusses key elements of optimal central bank design and applies its findings to the Eurosystem. A particular focus is on the size of monetary policy committees, the degree of centralization, and the representation of relative economic size in the voting rights of regional (or...

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004

Jürges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests … of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if … measured so that it becomes comparable, teachers will increase their effort. The theory is tested using the German PISA-E data …

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Cost overrun at the Norwegian continental shelf : the element of surprise

Oglend, Atle; Osmundsen, Petter; Lorentzen, Sindre - 2016

We examine drivers of cost overruns in Norwegian development projects in the oil and gas sector. The multivariate longitudinal econometric analysis employs a unique and detailed dataset consisting of 80 different projects between 2000 and 2015. Among the significant results, we find that the...

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Cost performance on the Norwegian continental shelf

Lorentzen, Sindre; Osmundsen, Petter - 2016

The oil and gas sector plays a crucial role in the Norwegian economy. It accounts for a very large proportion of gross domestic product, government revenues, investment and exports. A sharp fall in oil prices has had a significant impact on the economy and focused great attention on the cost...

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