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Innovation activities and firm performance: Empirical evidence from transition economies
Abazi-Alili, Hyrije - In: Journal of Contemporary Economic and Business Issues 1 (2014) 2, pp. 5-18
determinants of productivity, we find evidence that firms that have undertaken innovation activities (instrumented variable) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557585
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Innovation activities and firm performance : empirical evidence from transition economies
Abazi-Alili, Hyrije - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 1 (2014) 2, pp. 5-18
determinants of productivity, we find evidence that firms that have undertaken innovation activities (instrumented variable) and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011533415
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Chapter 8. Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, and the World Trade Organization
Saggi, K. - 2016
This chapter surveys the literature on international trade and the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) in the global economy. The discussion is organized around the major questions in the field. How does openness to trade affect national incentives for patent protection? What is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023447
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Essays on Offshoring, Wage Inequality and Innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698346
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
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Tariff rates, offshoring and productivity : evidence from German and Austrian firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952123
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Tariff Rates, Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from German and Austrian Firm-Level Data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010427590
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Global sourcing of heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2015
This paper investigates the role of firm productivity in drawing firm boundaries in global sourcing. Our analysis … focuses on how productivity affects the allocation of ownership rights between the headquarter of a firm and an intermediate …. domestic). Unlike previous work, we allow for a fully flexible productivity effect with varying magnitude and sign across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476678
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Productivity and Firm Boundaries
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2018
), 552-80, to derive a new prediction regarding how the productivity of a firm affects its choice between vertical … robust firm-level evidence from Spain showing that, in line with our prediction, the effect of productivity works more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908704