useful information about variables such as commodity prices which matter for aggregate demand and thus inflation. Given this …

are characterized by higher productivity levels than exporters on average, the productivity ranking predicted by Helpman …

Using a large panel data set of German manufacturing establishments, this paper investigates the impact of competition … relationship between product market competition and firms' incentives to invest in employees' general skills (Gersbach and … Schmutzler 2006). In our empirical analysis, product market competition is approximated by various measures of competition such …

We use parametric power ARCH models of the conditional variance of inflation to model the relationship between … inflation and its uncertainty using monthly data for Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden over a period ranging from 1962 to 2004 ….For all three countries inflation significantly raises inflation uncertainty as predicted by Friedman. Increased …

abroad (market-driven vs. resource-driven FDI). Second, we highlight the role of productivity growth in the post-entry period …. Our findings suggest that productivity affects the FDI decision considerably whereas expected feedback and learning … effects of FDI on productivity are remarkably lower. We further detect that more market-driven MNEs exhibit a higher …

-stage simulation making a distinction between immediate direct effects and possible long-run effects from increased productivity. While …

domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a …