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Speeding up the product cycle : the role of host country reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2011
. -- product cycle ; ownership structure ; contract environment ; export variety ; processing trade ; China … quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516919
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Should I stay or should I go? : A note on employment protection, domestic anchorage, and FDI
Dewit, Gerda (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001784184
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Does college location affect the location choice of new college graduates? : evidence from China
Huang, Mian; Xing, Chunbing; Xiaoyong, Cui - 2019
Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034255
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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332105
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Employment protection and firm relocation : theory and evidence
Dewit, Gerda; Görg, Holger; Temouri, Yama - 2018
We examine the determinants of the decision to relocate activities abroad for firms located in OECD countries. We argue that particular firm-specific features play a crucial role for the link between employment protection and relocation. Stricter employment protection laws over time in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853748
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The hardships of long distance relationships : time zone proximity and knowledge transmission within multinational firms
Bahar, Dany - 2018
Using a unique dataset on worldwide multinational corporations with precise location of headquarters and affiliates, I present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary's economic activity, emerging from dynamics related to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011891832
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. -- exports ; foreign direct investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009425691
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Firms' global engagement and management practices
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - 2017
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636585
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Job losses, outsourcing and relocation : empirical evidence using microdata
Artís Ortuño, Manuel (contributor);  … - 2007
Using microdata, we analyse the determinants of firm relocation and outsourcing decisions and their effects on firms' employment decisions. The results for a sample of 32 countries show that both strategies have been more intense in the EU-15 countries than in the rest and that, in some cases,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003635366
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Do labour market institutions matter? : Micro-level wage effects of international outsourcing in three European countries
Geishecker, Ingo (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2007
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries and construct comparable measures of outsourcing at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646689