Using a unique database containing trade and industry variables of foreign-owned companies in the Polish manufacturing industry for the years 1993-2002, we investigate the relationship between the organizational structure of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in Poland and the export structure of...

This paper investigates the link between export performance and multinational enterprise presence utilizing trade and industry data for Polish manufacturing industries for the years 1994-2002. Decomposing trade into final and intermediate goods and assessing the impact of foreign-owned capital...

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This paper studies the significance of foreign direct investment and its spillover effects in a transition country such as Poland, analyzing a unique cross-industry data set on foreign, domestic private, and domestic public companies. Aspects of foreign presence as a share of the whole industry...

The regional integration and increasing role of the Central European Countries in globalization <p> processes raised the question of foreign direct investments inflow and its role in these Economies. <p> Poland, the first country that launched radical reforms and the largest country that joined...</p></p>

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We examine how openness interacts with the coordination of consumption-leisure decisions in determining the equilibrium working hours and wage rate when there are leisure externalities (e.g., due to social interactions). The latter are modelled by allowing a workers marginal utility of leisure...

This paper examines the relation between price differences and quality differences in an oligopoly model with intra-industry trade, where goods are horizontally as well as vertically differentiated. The analysis demonstrates that the ratio of prices is not linked to the ratio of qualities in any...