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Innovation and the International Firm Structure: Theory and Evidence from German Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
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The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - 2012
, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become … between institutional quality and offshoring. The results suggest that weak institutions are negatively related to offshoring … in general and to offshoring of R&D-intensive goods in particular. Furthermore, firms that are able to establish long …
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Trends in the Internationalisation of R&D - the German Perspective
Beise, Marian; Belitz, Heike - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 2, pp. 67-85
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Sozio-ökonomische Entwicklungseffekte der Internationalisierung der Produktion: die internationale Textilbranche und das Fallbeispiel der Bundesrepublik und Tschechien
Obst, Stefan - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 67 (1998) 3, pp. 235-253
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The Opening Up of Eastern Europe at 20-Jobs, Skills, and ‘Reverse Maquiladoras’ in Austria and Germany
Marin, Dalia - 2010
Enlargement leads to surprising small job losses of less than 0.5 percent of total employment in Germany and of 1.5 percent in …
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Tariff Rates, Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from German and Austrian Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...
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