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Local user-producer interaction in innovation and export performance of firms
Beise, Marian (contributor); Rammer, Christian (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001822531
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The labour share of income : heterogeneous causes for parallel movements?
Hogrefe, Jan; Kappler, Marcus - 2010
The aim of this paper is to take a structured approach at estimating the coefficients of factors explaining movements of the labour share across countries. In particular, we focus on proper dynamic specification and test the validity of the homogeneity assumption of slope coefficients frequently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003961521
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Climate policy and the problem of competitiveness : border tax adjustments or integrated emission trading?
Alexeeva-Talebi, Victoria (contributor);  … - 2008
In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003751284
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Trade policy : "political" vs. "economic" factors
Lutz, Stefan H. - 2002
The ongoing discussion of U.S.-Japanese trade relations suggests that national differences such as in the institutional environment may be relevant for assessing international trade policies. However, economic trade theory often assumes countries to be organized around common notions of complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447859
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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
This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561938
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Exporting and labor demand : micro-level evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238353
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Gender, informal employment and trade liberalization in Mexico
Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Bombarda, Pamela - 2018
We study how trade liberalization affects formal employment across gender. We propose a theoretical mechanism to explain how male and female formal employment shares can respond differently to trade liberalization through labor reallocation across tradable and non-tradable sectors. Using Mexican...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855338
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A political economy of China‘s export restrictions on rare earth elements
Pothen, Frank; Fink, Kilian - 2015
industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …We investigate why governments restrict exports of exotic raw materials taking rare earth elements as a case study … creating comparative advantages in these sectors and at overcoming path dependencies. Moreover, export barriers serve as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510603
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The export-growth relationship estimating a dose-response function
Fryges, Helmut (contributor) - 2006
The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003319677
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Trade and technology : new evidence on the productivity sorting of firms
Bertschek, Irene; Hogrefe, Jan; Rasel, Fabienne - 2013
Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771855