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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition - An empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - 1998
This paper analyses the degree to which firms expect to be able to enter new markets, to develop new products and to contend with new foreign competition after the introduction of the Euro. Panel data taken from a quarterly business survey in the service sector are used for the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299664
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Global payment disruptions and firm-level exports
Haas, Ralph$cde; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Schultz, Alison - 2022
financial crime regulation - to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from … borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive and intensive margins and firms do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013482878
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Broken relationships: De-risking by correspondent banks and international trade
Borchert, Lea; de Haas, Ralph; Kirschenmann, Karolin; … - 2023
financial crime regulation) to assess how payment disruptions impede cross-border trade. Using firm-level export data from … borrowers start to export less. This trade decline occurs on both the extensive and intensive margins, and firms only partially … findings highlight an often overlooked function of global banks: providing the payment infrastructure and trade finance that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476159
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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition - An empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 1998
This paper analyses the degree to which firms expect to be able to enter new markets, to develop new products and to contend with new foreign competition after the introduction of the Euro. Panel data taken from a quarterly business survey in the service sector are used for the empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567552
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The optimal tariff in the presence of trade-induced productivity gains
Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports … that the incentive to manipulate the terms of trade strategically vanishes, (c) the welfare gain that can be achieved via a … trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the only model region that gains from European optimal tariff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010985698
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The optimal tariff in the presence of trade-induced productivity gains
Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - 2013
tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports … that the incentive to manipulate the terms of trade strategically vanishes, (c) the welfare gain that can be achieved via a … trade-induced productivity gains into account. The USA are the only model region that gains from European optimal tariff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327238
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Comparing Investment and Employment Specialisation Patterns of EU Regions
Stirböck, Claudia - 2004
This study analyses relative sectoral specialisation of EU regions on the basis of investment and employment patterns. Controlling for heteroscedasticity and potential endogeneity in the econometric analysis, we find that relative specialisation in manufacturing sectors is higher in central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297368
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Regional Specialisation Patterns Across EU Regions
Stirböck, Claudia - 2004
This paper conducts a spatial econometric analysis of the determinants of regional specialisation patterns. Spatial autocorrelation is present, but is mostly due to spatial error autocorrelation. Spatial interaction due to economic interdependencies is only evident for some few labour-intensive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297369
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Economic Integration and Fiscal Decentralization: Evidence from OECD Countries
Stegarescu, Dan - 2004
Drawing on recent work on the creation and breakup of countries, this paper examines the impact of economic and political integration on the vertical government structure. It argues that by increasing the market size and the benefits from the decentralized provision of public goods, integration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297409
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Centralizing Tendencies in the Public Sector in Germany
Stegarescu, Dan - 2005
This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative review of the German history provides no conclusive evidence for a continuous process of government centralization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297454