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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very …-level data on offshoring. Our main results suggest that in partial equilibrium, wage effects of offshoring are fairly modest but …

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Offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and productivity: Evidence for a number of European countries

Schwörer, Tillmann - 2012

The economic effects of offshoring have been subject to extensive empirical analysis in the past, but many studies have … not accurately distinguished between offshoring, domestic outsourcing, and the substitution of domestic by foreign … suppliers. In this study I provide stylized facts on offshoring in Europe between 1995 and 2008 taking into account this …

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Exporters in the financial crisis

Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - 2014

Using a large panel of UK manufacturing firms over the period 2000-2009, we consider how firms responded during the most recent financial crisis, estimating models for export market participation decisions and firm growth and survival. The results indicate that financial variables are highly...

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On the effects of sanctions on trade and welfare: New evidence based on structural gravity and a new database

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yalcin, Erdal - 2019

Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...

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Can production subsidies explain China's export performance? Evidence from firm level data

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Yu, Zhihong - 2008

It is widely accepted that China has been experiencing an export-led growth approach. However, the question whether government can reshape industry structure through production subsidies to enhance export performance has not been answered. This paper analyses the impact of production subsidies...

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Financial health, exports and firm survival: a comparison of British and French firms

Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - 2009

We examine the differential effects of financial status and exporting activity on the likelihood of survival for firms in the UK and France - two countries with different financial systems. We aim to answer two main questions: What is the direct impact of financial characteristics and different...

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Linkages between technology choice and exporting: Evidence from Argentina

Schmidt, Gabriela; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2010

This paper aids our understanding of the link between innovation and exporting behavior by detailing how firms may purposefully decide on the source country for the imported innovation and the market that they ultimately serve. We argue that firms who invest in the state-of-the-art technologies...

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Financial globalization, financial frictions and optimal monetary policy

Faia, Ester; Iliopulos, Esti - 2010

How should monetary policy be optimally designed in an environment with high degrees of financial globalization? To answer this question we lay down an open economy model where net lending toward the rest of the world is constrained by a collateral constraint motivated by limited enforcement....

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European economic integration in econometric modelling: Concepts, measures and illustration

Krieger-Boden, Christiane; Soltwedel, Rüdiger - 2010

Processes of regional economic integration have been shaping the economic relations between countries significantly during the last decades. In addition, an increasing integration of the national economies into the global economy has affected these economic relations, too. In an effort to...

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TAFTA - a dead horse or an attractive open club?

Siebert, Horst - 2005

A Transatlantic Free Trade Area (TAFTA) has been proposed in the mid-1990s to revitalize the economic and political ties between the United States and the European Union. This paper discusses the expected economic gains from such a free trade area for its members with respect to trade in goods...

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