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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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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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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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Market size and factor endowment : explaining comparative advantage in bilateral trade by differences in income and per capita income

Schumacher, Dieter - 2001

Using a gravity-type explanation of international trade flows at the industry level, it is shown that the pattern of comparative advantage in terms of sectoral export/import ratios in bilateral trade can be explained by relative income and relative per capita income. Total income of a country is...

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Effects of tariffication : tariffs, quotas and VERs under monopolistic competition

Guldager Jørgensen, Jan; Schröder, Philipp J. H. - 2002

Recent rounds of GATT and later WTO have advocated widespread tariffication, meaning that existing non-tariff barriers be converted into import equivalent tariffs. From an economic point of view, the effects of such tariffication are not entirely clear. The paper presents a general equilibrium...

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Home market and traditional effects on comparative advantage in a gravity approach

Schumacher, Dieter - 2003

Policy makers in "small" countries facing trade liberalisation have become concerned with the potential loss of manufacturing employment and output to "large" economies in the presence of economies of scale in production and international transport costs. This paper offers a methodology to...

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Market structure and the taxation of international trade

Haufler, Andreas; Pflüger, Michael - 2003

The paper compares non-cooperative commodity taxation under the destination and origin principles under a variety of different assumptions about market structure. We consider a model of international duopoly with either quantity or price competition of firms and either segmented or integrated...

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New trade models, same old emissions?

Sogalla, Robin; Wanner, Joschka; Watabe, Yuta - 2024

This paper investigates the elusive role of productivity heterogeneity in new trade models in the trade and environment nexus. We contrast the Eaton-Kortum and the Melitz models with firm heterogeneity to the Armington and Krugman models without heterogeneity. We show that if firms have a...

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Unilateral carbon pricing and heterogeneous firms

Sogalla, Robin - 2023

Several empirical studies document the relevance of firm heterogeneity to assess the effect of trade and environmental policy. This paper develops a multi-country and -sector general equilibrium trade model with heterogeneous firms and analyzes the effect of domestic carbon pricing as well as...

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