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Estimating border effects : the impact of spatial aggregation
Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2016
Trade data are typically reported at the level of regions or countries and are therefore aggregates across space. In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of standard gravity estimation to spatial aggregation. We build a model in which initially symmetric micro regions are combined to form...
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Macroeconomic effects of disruptions in global food commodity markets : evidence for the United States
De Winne, Jasmien; Peersman, Gert - 2016
We use two approaches to examine the macroeconomic consequences of disruptions in global food commodity markets. First, we embed a novel quarterly composite global production index for the four basic staples (corn, wheat, rice and soybeans) in a standard vector autoregression (VAR) model, and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565633
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … investments. We describe the structure and methodology of the database and illustrate its variety and strengths by looking at some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721990
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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019
Rösel, Felix - 2022
I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all … German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287977
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FamData: database for family business companies in Germany covering company key figures and survey data
Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023
FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches …,000 companies. In addition to the "hard" business data like turnover and number of employees, the database also includes "soft …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014309600
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Go wide or go deep : margins of new trade flows
Erhardt, Katharina; Gupta, Apoorva - 2024
This paper aims to understand the pathways by which exporters become entities that sell multiple goods to multiple customers. To understand firms’ export strategies, we analyse new trade flows – new seller-buyer-product combinations – of individual exporters. Our first finding highlights...
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Was Germany ever united? : evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933
Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008
When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the geography of trade costs across Central Europe. There...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771795
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Offshoring along the production chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring 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 steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808676
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Greasing the wheels of international commerce : how services facilitate firms' international sourcing
Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - 2010
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937283
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Modeling international trade flows between CEEC and OECD countries
Rault, Christophe (contributor); Sova, Robert (contributor);  … - 2008
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