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Cologne and the district of Heinsberg, with the aim of highlighting differences and similarities in local governance. The …
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the relevant actors will need to be supported at upper political levels. Coherence within the German and French DC systems …
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In this paper a semiparametric stochastic metafrontier approach is used to obtain insight into firmlevel competitiveness in Europe. We differ from standard TFP studies at the firm level as we simultaneously allow for inefficiency, noise and do not impose a functional form on the input-output...
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Unternehmen in Mittel- und Osteuropa, basierend auf drei zentralen theoretischen Paradigmen, nämlich der Transaktionskostentheorie … Unternehmen aus den vier nordischen Ländern in Mittel- und Osteuropa zwischen 1990 und 2007 ergab, dass die Wahrscheinlichkeit der …
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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
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Recent literature on multinational firms has stressed the importance of low productivity as a barrier to the cross-border expansion of firms. But firms may also need external finance to shoulder the costs of entering foreign markets. We develop a model of multinational firms facing real and...
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One of the most important predictions made in recent international trade literature based on heterogeneous firms concerns the within-industry job reallocation from firms not involved in international markets to those that are. This paper quantifies the extent of this reallocation using a dataset...
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We describe a simple model in which domestic firms decide whether to serve a foreign market through exports or horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). This choice involves a trade-off between the higher variable trade costs associated with exports and the higher fixed set-up costs associated...
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staatliche und private Unternehmen in einem umfassenden und intransparenten Maß subventioniert. Fallstudien der OECD für einzelne … wurden deutsche Unternehmen im Rahmen des IW-Zukunftspanels befragt. Die Ergebnisse sprechen eine recht deutliche Sprache. So … wird die Relevanz des Konkurrenzdrucks durch China in den nächsten fünf Jahren von internationalisierten Unternehmen als …
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