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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...

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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data

Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535116

Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data

Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540827

Buyer power in international markets

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2009

liberalization are weaker under buyer power than under seller power. -- buyer power ; retailing ; international trade …

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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy

Raff, Horst - 2011

We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in … shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the rise in retailer product assortment and the emergence of slotting … concentration is best explained by technological change in retailing. We also identify a novel benefit from market integration …

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Cross-Border and Foreign Affiliate Sales of Services : Evidence from German Micro-Data

Kelle, Markus - 2012

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Buyer Power in International Markets

Raff, Horst - 2009

This paper investigates the implications for international markets of the existence of retailers/wholesalers with market power. Two main results are shown. First, in the presence of buyer power trade liberalization may lead to retail market concentration. Due to this concentration retail prices...

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Cross Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services : Evidence from German Micro-Data

Kelle, Markus - 2012

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the ﬁrm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We ﬁnd that for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100885

International trade and retail market performance and structure : theory and empirical evidence

Meinen, Philipp; Raff, Horst - 2018

Based on a theoretical model featuring heterogeneous retailers that may source globally and operate as chains, we derive a number of hypotheses that link trade integration to retail firm performance and to the structure of retail markets. We empirically test these predictions using Danish...

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Imports and the structure of retail markets

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2011

, and that restrictions on retailing, as they occur in several countries, may significantly alter this transmission …

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