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The effects of quotas on vertical intra-industry trade
Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002
A quota on foreign competition will generally lead to quality-upgrading (downgrading) of the low-quality (high-quality) firm, an increase in average quality, a reduction of quality differentiation, and a reduction of domestic consumer surplus, irrespective of whether the foreign firm produces...
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Pricing to market of German exporters : evidence from panel data
Falk, Martin; Falk, Rahel - 1998
This paper investigates price discrimination of German exporters across different foreign markets. We examine the degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441656
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Does energy policy hurt international competitiveness of firms? : a comparative study for Germany, Switzerland and Austria
Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra; Peneder, Michael; … - 2016
debate on potentially negative impacts of cost-increasing energy policies on international competitiveness. We use firm …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561938
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Readdressing the trade effect of the Euro : allowing for currency misalignment
Hogrefe, Jan; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2010
We know that euro-area member countries have absorbed asymmetric shocks in ways that are inconsistent with a common nominal anchor. Based on a reformulation of the gravity model that allows for such bilateral misalignment, we disentangle the conventional trade cost channel and trade effects...
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The optimal tariff in the presence of trade-induced productivity gains
Hübler, Michael; Pothen, Frank - 2013
We scrutinize the impact of international productivity gains (spillovers) induced by imports and exports on optimal tariffs. First, we solve a stylized 2x2 trade model of a large open economy and show that (a) productivity gains via exports and imports both reduce the strategically optimal...
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ICT and global sourcing : evidence for German manufacturing and service firms
Rasel, Fabienne - 2015
sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418739
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Offshoring and ICT : evidence for German manufacturing and service firms
Rasel, Fabienne - 2012
manufacturing and services. Using firm-level data from the manufacturing and service sector in Germany and a broad range of ICT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686736
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Firm R&D investment and export market exposure
Peters, Bettina; Roberts, Mark J.; Vuong, Van Anh - 2018
In this article we study differences in the returns to R&D investment between firms that sell in international markets and firms that only sell in the domestic market. We use German firm-level data from the high-tech manufacturing sector to estimate a dynamic structural model of a firm's...
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Foreign competition and executive compensation in the manufacturing industry : a comparison between Germany and the U.S.
Dyballa, Katharina; Kraft, Kornelius - 2018
impact of foreign competition on managerial compensation, (2) differences in the impact between Germany and the U.S. and (3 … covering the period from 1984-2010 for Germany respectively 1992-2011 for the U.S. and apply system GMM in order to solve … Germany. A differentiation between imported intermediates (efficient sourcing strategy) and final inputs (competition) reveals …
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Export and innovation activities in the German service sector : empirical evidence at the firm level
Ebling, Günther; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 1999
In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies using data from the 1997 wave of the Mannheim Innovation Panel in the Service Sector. There is a lot of support for the Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly...
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