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R&D internationalization strategies of the world's top corporate R&D investors

Belitz, Heike; Lejpras, Anna - 2021

their home country only. Our study confirms former results of the literature that R&D offshoring is used by leading R …

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Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D : the German perspective

Beise, Marian; Belitz, Heike - 1998

In this paper we present latest facts about the R&D activities of German multinational companies abroad and R&D activities of foreign companies in Germany. These results confirm that Germany is still an attractive location for R&D activites of multinational companies in many technological...

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Multinational firms and heterogeneous labor

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2008

In the presence of increasing specialization of workers it becomes more and more difficult for firms to find the most suitable workers. In such an environment a multinational corporation has an advantage because it can exchange workers between plants in different countries. In this way it can...

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On the Coexistence of National Companies and Multinational Enterprises

Kleinert, Jörn - 2003

National and multinational companies coexist in many sectors of all developed countries. However, economic models fail to reproduce this fact because of the assumption of symmetry between companies. To show that the symmetry assumption is the reason for this failure, a two-country general...

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Trade and the Internationalization of Production

Kleinert, Jörn - 2002

Whereas many empirical studies show that the internationalization of production is driven by falling distance costs, theoretical models of the endogenous emergence of multinational enterprises predict the opposite. This paper argues that this dichotomy can be resolved if the production process...

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Globalization of the World Economy: What Happened in 1985?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as...

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Intermediation in foreign trade: when do exporters rely on intermediaries?

Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Trabold, Harald; … - 2003

The paper explores theoretically and empirically why trade intermediaries (TIs) are frequently used as agents for exports to some countries but not to others. We adapt a standard intra-industry trade model with variable export costs (e.g. transport) and fixed export costs (e.g. market access) to...

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Diversify or not? : the link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance

Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023

Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe’s digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...

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Outsourcing and the demand for low-skill labour in German manufacturing : new evidence

Geishecker, Ingo - 2002

This paper analyses how international outsourcing has affected the relative demand for low skilled workers in Germany … disentangle international outsourcing and trade in final goods more accurately. The main finding is that during the 1990s … international outsourcing had a significant negative impact on the relative demand for low-skilled workers, explaining between 19 …

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Intra-industry trade, endogenous technological change, wage inequality and welfare

De Santis, Roberto A. - 1999

By using two alternative intra-industry trade models (1. - New goods cannot be introduced into the economy; 2. - The possibility for a set of capital goods available in the economy to vary; both models consider the existence of an intersectoral linkage), I show by means of Applied General...

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