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When, How Fast and by How Much do Trade Costs change in the Euro Area?
Herwartz, Helmut; Weber, Henning - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2008
Microfoundations of the euro´s effect on euro area trade hinge on the timing, thespeed and the size of adjustment in trade costs. We estimate timing, speed and sizeof adjustment in trade costs for sectoral trade data. Our approach allows for sectorspecific impacts of trade costs on sectoral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862427
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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance and FirmHeterogeneity
Behar, Alberto; Nelson, Benjamin D. - University <Oxford> / Department of Economics - 2009
We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selectioninto trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting…firms takes a gravity form: the extensive margin is also accected by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870124
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TRADE SPECIALISATION AND ECONOMIC CONVERGENCE:EVIDENCE FROM TWO EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Rault, Christophe; Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Sova, Robert - William Davidson Institute <Ann Arbor, Mich.> - 2009
This paper analyses trade specialisation dynamics in two Eastern European countries(Romania and Bulgaria – EEC-2) vis-à-vis the core EU member states (EU-15) over theperiod 1990-2006. Specifically, we focus on whether there is a shift towards intra-industrytrade leading to economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360508
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Simultaneous Causality in International Trade
Weber, Enzo - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007
This paper proposes estimating causalities in bilateral international trade in simultaneous systems, including domestic and foreign GDP as well as mutual trade flows. Conventional macroeconomic theory mainly follows partial approaches like import functions or exportled growth. Focusing on the US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861045
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Die internationale Wirtschaftstätigkeit kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen im Lichte der amtlichen und nicht-amtlichen Statistik
Kokalj, Ljuba; Wolff, Karin - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung <Bonn> - 2001
[...]Ziel dieser Studie ist die Quantifizierung der Auslandsbeziehungen kleiner undmittlerer Unternehmen. Dazu werden zunächst die in Frage kommenden amtlichen Statistiken hinsichtlich der unternehmensgrößenspezifischen Erkenntnismöglichkeitenzu den Auslandsaktivitäten der Unternehmen...
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Higher Wages in Exporting Firms : Self-Selection, Export Effect, or Both? First Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data
Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
plants that start to export. We show that the exporter wage premium does already exist in the years before firms start to … export, and that it does not increase in the following years... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860990
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Exports and Productivity Growth:First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
's exportstatus and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binarytreatment variable and comparing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863028
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863226
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Export Entry, Export Exit, and Productivity in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the … panel were more productive in the start year than firms from the same cohort that stopped to export in between. While …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864521
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Exports and Productivity in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> - 2007
Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality longitudinal data at the plant level, this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity in Germany, a leading actor on the world market for manufactured goods.It applies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005864633