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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297485
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The Effects of Regional and Industry: Wide FDI Spillovers on Export of Ukrainian Firms
Park, Sang-Min; Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan - 2003
In this paper we investigate the effects of region and industry?wide spillovers from foreign direct investment (FDI) on … competition and linkage effects through industrial and regional spillovers respectively. We use a simple Cournot competition model … in order to test for industrial and regional spillovers. The estimation results suggest that large firms, durable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297304
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Diversify or not? The link between global sourcing of ICT goods and firm performance
Schiersch, Alexander; Bertschek, Irene; Niebel, Thomas - 2023
Our paper contributes to the discussion about Europe's digital sovereignty. We analyze the relationship between firm performance and the diversification of sourcing countries for imported ICT goods. The analysis is based on administrative data for 3888 German manufacturing firms that imported...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014325568
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Exports versus FDI in German Manufacturing: Firm Performance and Participation in International Markets
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2005
This paper tests some of the predictions of recent advances in trade theory that have focused on different trade patterns of firms within the same sector. Helpman, Melitz and Yeaple (2005) develop a model in which innate productivity differences between firms determine the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097979
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Do Ukrainian Firms Benefit from FDI?
Talavera, Oleksandr; Lutz, Stefan H. - 2003
All countries are eager to attract as much foreign investments as possible. At the same time FDI may have not only positive, but also negative economic effects for receiving countries. Positive effects are associated with technology transfer, efficient allocation of resources, and training of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298136
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Public research and industrial innovations in Germany
Beise, Marian; Stahl, Harald - 1998
of received knowledge spillovers, we found no higher probability of publicly supported innovations for firms in Germany … Umsatzes mit neuen Produkten gemacht. Der Technologietransfer von den öffentlichen Forschungseinrichtungen wird dabei … dem Stichwort regionale High-Tech-Agglomerationen diskutiert wird, nicht auf den Technologietransfer aus. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297597
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Do Computers Call for Training? Firm-level Evidence on Complementarities Between ICT and Human Capital Investments
Hempell, Thomas - 2003
This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training programmes are complementary. Three approaches are applied to panel data from German service companies for the time period 1994?98. Results for a system of interrelated factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297271
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Extent and Evolution of the Productivity Gap in Eastern Germany
Czarnitzki, Dirk - 2003
Since the German re?unification in 1990, Eastern Germany is a transition economy. After a phase of catching up of productivity with respect to Western Germany from 1991 to 1996, the growth rates in the producing sector have dropped below the Western German ones since 1997. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297273
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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?
Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003
Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing number of national firm level studies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297274
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Works Councils and the Productivity Impact of Direct Employee Participation
Zwick, Thomas - 2003
This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a representative German establishment data set, the IAB establishment panel, the study finds that the presence of team-work, a reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297298