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TFP growth in old and new Europe
Burda, Michael C.; Severgnini, Battista - 2009
Using Solow-Törnqvist residuals as well as two alternative measurements, we present estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in a sample of 30 European economies for the period 1994-2005. In most of Western Europe, we find a deceleration of TFP growth since 2000. However, the...
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The Wage Premium of Globalisation: Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - 2012
We provide evidence on the impact of globalisation on labour market outcomes analysing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically-owned firms. For this purpose, we use firm level data from 16 European countries over the time period 1999 to 2006. Applying propensity score matching...
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The Wage Premium of Foreign Ownership: Evidence from European Mergers and Acquisitions
Oberhofer, Harald; Stöckl, Matthias; Winner, Hannes - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-21, pp. 1-27
The authors provide evidence on the impact of foreign ownership on labor market outcomes analyzing pay differences between foreign-acquired and domestically owned firms. For this purpose, they use firm-level data from 16 European countries over the time period 19992006. Combing propensity score...
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Disintegration and Trade
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
The gravity model of trade is utilized to assess the impact of disintegration on trade. The analysis is based on three recent disintegration episodes involving the firmer Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. The results point to a very strong home bias around the time of disintegration,...
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Regional implications of financial market development: Credit rationing, trade, and location
von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2013
We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...
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Labor migration: Macroeconomic and demographic outlook for Europe and neighbourhood regions
Borgy, Vladimir; Chojnicki, Xavier - 2008
of this multi-regions model allows us to put into connection migration with the "triangular" relationship between … demographic and economic consequences of migration ows on both the regions receiving and losing migrants. Our analysis is based on … a very detailed migration scenario between Western Europe and the Neighborhood regions constructed by taking into …
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Nachbarschaftsbeziehungen auf dem COVID-Prüfstand: Analyse zu den Herausforderungen für Österreichs Wirtschaftsbeziehungen mit Mittel-, Ost- und Südosteuropa und Deutschland im Kon...
Gruebler, Julia; Bykova, Alexandra - 2020
Die Verbreitung der neuartigen Krankheit COVID-19 stellt alle Volkswirtschaften rund um den Globus vor gesundheitliche und wirtschaftliche Herausforderungen. Von der Pandemie und den Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung der Ausbreitung des Coronavirus sind internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen besonders...
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The Balassa-Samuelson effect in 'East & West': Differences and similarities
Wagner, Martin - 2005
Based on two detailed Balassa-Samuelson (BS) studies, Wagner and Hlouskova (2004) for eight Central Eastern European countries (CEECs) and Wagner and Doytchinov (2004) for ten Western European countries (WECs), this study assesses the differences and similarities of the BS effect between these...
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Convergence of food consumption patterns between Eastern and Western Europe
Elsner, Karin; Hartmann, Monika - 1998
Ost- und Westeuropa zu beobachten ist. Die Analyse bezieht sich auf die 10 mit der EU assoziierten mittel- und … des Nahrungsmittelverbrauchs zwischen Ost- und Westeuropa seit Transformationsbeginn zu beobachten ist, aber nicht für …
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Drivers for international innovation activities in developed and emerging countries
Schmiele, Anja - 2009
This paper aims to shed light on firm specific drivers that lead firms to internationalise their innovation activities. The paper draws a comprehensive picture of driving forces by including firm capabilities, characteristics of the firm’s competitive environment and the influence of...
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