Polens Volkswirtschaft wächst 1996 voraussichtlich um 5,5%. Im Gegensatz zum Vorjahr (1995: + 7%) schwächte sich wegen einer geringeren Auslandsnachfrage die Konjunktur ab. Konsum (ca.+ 4% bis 5%) und Investitionen (ca. +18%) sttitzen jedoch das Wachstum. Das Preisklima entspannt sich etwas....

This study uses Comtrade trade data covering 1990-2017, 14 textile subsectors, and 53 African countries with their main trade partners to evaluate Chinese trade impacts on African textile exports over three subperiods at the sector level. It finds that, although textile imports from China had a...

This paper analyzes long-term effects of skilled-worker immigration on productivityfor the Huguenots migration to Prussia. We combine Huguenot immigration lists from1700 with Prussian firm-level data on the value of inputs and outputs in 1802 in aunique data base. In 1685, religious persecution...

In this paper we study the effect of import competition from China on the Belgian textiles sector. Our analysis comprises both trade data and firm-level data. We study the evolution of the unit values in textiles exported from China into the EU versus textiles exported from Belgium to the rest...

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to study this question. Regional differences in banking integration affected how the recession spread across the country: financing frictions for credit-dependent firms were more...

Der deutsche Textilmaschinenbau ist durch ein zyklisch schwankendes Geschäft gekennzeichnet. Die Branche ist stark exportorientiert und damit von der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung in Zielmärkten wie China, der Türkei, den USA und Indien abhängig. Nach dem Corona-Schock hatten sich die...

We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary - weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...