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The determinants of service imports : the role of cost pressure and financial constraints
Biewen, Elena; Harsch, Daniela; Spies, Julia - 2012
start to import services from abroad if they are under cost pressure. By contrast, firms intensify existing service imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009674851
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Trade shocks, labor markets and elections in the first globalization
Bräuer, Richard; Hungerland, Wolf-Fabian; Kersting, Felix - 2021
This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture – the grain invasion from the Americas – in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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Trade exposure and the decline in collective bargaining : evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
increased import exposure has led to an increase in the probability of German plants leaving industry-wide bargaining agreements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034137
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Outsourcing of services, imported materials and the demand for heterogeneous labour : an application of a generalised Box-Cox function
Falk, Martin - 2000
This paper examines the effects that purchased services and imported intermediate materials have on the labour demand for different skills in the manufacturing sector. We derive and estimate a factor demand system based on the generalised Box-Cox cost function nesting both the normalised...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428348
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Opposing firm-level responses to the China shock : horizontal competition versus vertical relationships
Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012614409
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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition : an empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - 1998
in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622467
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector: empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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Local user producer interaction in innovation and export performance of firms
Beise, Marian - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428581
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Pricing to market of German exporters : evidence from panel data
Falk, Martin; Falk, Rahel - 1998
degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference …
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The margins of US trade
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - 2009
Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms’ extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad...
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