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their engagement in already existing Indian firms. Most notably, the productivity of the German parents matters only for …
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importance of firm-level productivity and distance-related transaction costs as driving forces of FDI. Yet the timing of FDI has … strongly depends on firm productivity immediately after the political and economic regime change, but less so with diminishing …. -- Multinational enterprises ; firm-level productivity ; distance ; timing of FDI …
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Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of … sectors, predicts that immigration boosts output per worker by expanding the high-productivity sector, but decreases output …
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We describe the determinants of energy intensity, carbon intensity, and CO2 emissions in the German manufacturing sector between 1995 and 2007, applying the LMDI index decomposition technique not to aggregate but to micro data. We trace back changes in total CO2 emissions from manufacturing to...
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productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US. …
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firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms' productivity level and their … effect'. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and … evidence is in line with the results from the theoretical model. -- Multi-product firms ; productivity ; optimal product scope …
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Germany remains Europe's largest and most diversified source of new technology, but still lags in the fastest growing areas of today's high technology. After World War II, West-German technology policy sought to rebuild the institutions which had supported Germany's leadership in the high-tech...
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This paper elaborates on the relative importance of sectoral shocks for real economic activity in Germany. Implications of multisectoral real business cycle models are examined by resorting to testing techniques based on stock market returns. The empirical evidence is obtained by calculating...
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-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
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