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Inward Foreign Direct Investment and Industrial Restructuring : Micro Evidence - The Slovenian Firms’ Growth Model
Zajc, Katja; Kumar, Andrej - 2013
We examine the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) on the growth of local firms in terms of employment and total factor productivity (TFP) for the Slovenian manufacturing sector in the 1994-2003 period. The theoretically predicted channels through which inward FDI affects the firm...
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Markups, market imperfections, and trade openness : evidence from Ghana
Damoah, Kaku Attah - 2018
This paper investigates the impact of Ghana's WTO accession on firm-level product and labour market imperfections. We exploit a rich dataset of firm-level information to estimate both markups and the degree of monopsony power enjoyed by manufacturing firms. Results suggest that price-cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011791998
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The Post 1990 Brazilian Trade Liberalization and the Performance of Large Manufacturing Firms
Hay, Donald - 2002
The paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalizaton on the total factor productivity, market share and profits of a sample of 318 large manufacturing firms. A panel data production function analysis for the period 1986/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014111915
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German and Austrian micro data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that exporters are more productive by around 40 percent compared with non-exporters. Moreover, beside other analysis techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952127
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Exports and productivity : an empirical analysis of German and Austrian firm-level performance
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the relationship between export activities and firm-level productivity. Unique matching of German and Austrian micro data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that exporters are more productive by around 40 percent compared with non-exporters. Moreover, beside other analysis techniques,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953959
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213059
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
This volume was prepared by Benedikt Heid while he was working at the ifo Institute and the University of Bayreuth. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. It includes six self-contained...
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Innovation dynamics and endogenous market structure : econometric results from aggregated survey data
Gottschalk, Sandra; Janz, Norbert Helmut - 2001
This paper examines empirically the relationship between innovation and market structure within a simultaneous framework at the industry level of aggregation. We use a model in which R&D affects both, demand and cost conditions. An optimization process leads to optimal industry R&D expenditure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446652
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Plant-Level Responses to Antidumping Duties : Evidence from U.S. Manufacturers
Pierce, Justin R. - 2011
correlation between antidumping duties and traditional revenue productivity is likely misleading. For the subset of plants … reporting quantity-based output data, increases in prices and markups artificially inflate the effect of antidumping duties on … revenue productivity, while physical productivity actually falls. Moreover, antidumping duties allow low-productivity plants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118651
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The Global Chilling Effects of Antidumping Proliferation
Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zanardi, Maurizio - 2006
Advocates of antidumping (AD) laws downplay their effects by arguing that the trade flows that are subject to AD are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014059405