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Different Types of Firms, Products, and Directions of Trade: The Case of the People’s Republic of China

Lee, Hyun-Hoon; Park, Donghyun; Wang, Jing - 2012

Using highly disaggregated, Harmonized System (HS) 8-digit, product-category level data collected by the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Customs Office for 2000 and 2008, we perform an in-depth anatomy of the PRC's trade in manufactured goods. First, we distinguish between foreign firms...

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Firm heterogeneity, industry characteristics and types of FDI: the case of German FDI in the Czech Republic

Görg, Holger; Mühlen, Henning; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2009

In addition to firm and industry characteristics, the heterogeneity of foreign direct investment (FDI) has to be taken into account when analyzing the determinants of outward FDI. We combine two firm-specific datasets on German firms with subsidiaries and joint ventures in the Czech Republic,...

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Firm Heterogeneity, Industry Characteristics and Types of FDI: The Case of German FDI in the Czech Republic

Mühlen, Henning; Görg, Holger; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2010

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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...

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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

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FDI, Firm Heterogeneity and Exports An analysis of Indian Manufacturing

Ghosh, Maitri; Roy, Saikat Sinha - 2016

Using firm-level data, this paper investigates whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), and hence Multinational Enterprise (MNE) presence, explains India's improved export performance during post-reforms. The recent literature stresses that firm heterogeneity gives some firms an edge over others...

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Spatial decisions of multinational enterprises and their effect on local firms

Ehnts, Dirk H. - 2004

Since the 1980s empirical research has been conducted on the influence of MNEs on local firms. The spillovers predicted by growth theory models used in the research designs have not been found. The main result is the importance of increased competition for the productivity of local firms. When...

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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy: Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000

We present a model, in which a small industrialised economy outsources part of its production into a small foreign country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion...

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Does globalization lead to specialization?

Eckel, Carsten - 2003

The relationship between market integration and the degree of specialization plays a key role in many areas of economics. In contrast to previous studies, we illustrate that globalization does not necessarily lead to specialization. The analysis is conducted in an extended Dixit-Stiglitz- Ethier...

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Fragmentierung - Außenhandel unter den Bedingungen vertikaler Globalisierung: Ein Überblick

Sell, Friedrich L. - 2001

fragmentation. Whereas the growth in North-South trade has been labeled "horizontal globalisation", fragmentation stands for the … "vertical globalisation". First fragmentation is introduced into a Ricardian model with one factor of production in a small … functions where we introduce one or two components. As a result, it seems to be clear that fragmentation is changing …

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