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Hanseatic Commerce in Textiles from the Low Countries and England during the Later Middle Ages:
Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2007
-luxury quality woollens, woven almost exclusively from the finer English wools, but wools that came to be burdened with high export … quality wools, which, for the domestic cloth industry, were tax-free and much cheaper. Nevertheless, for reasons outlined in …, both cheap worsted and luxury woollens, in terms of 15 tables: (1) English wool and broadcloth exports, 1281-1550; (2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005827229
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of oshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses territorial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952118
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Innovation and the international firm structure : theory and evidence from German firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of innovation on the organizational structure. The theoretical framework predicts that a larger parental pool of knowledge raises the probability of offshoring. This holds in a national as well as an international context. However, when the producer loses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003953947
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Persistence and Mobility in International Trade
Proudman, James; Redding, Stephen J. - 1998
The theoretical literature on endogenous growth and international trade suggests that comparative advantage is endogenous. Sector-specific learning by doing and technology transfer respectively provide reasons why initial patterns of international specialization may persist or exhibit mobility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014062627
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Tariff rates, offshoring and productivity : evidence from German and Austrian firm-level data
Hansen, Thorsten - 2010
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952123
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Corporate hierarchies and the size of nations : theory and evidence
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2006
Corporate organization varies within a country and across countries with country size. The paper starts by establishing some facts about corporate organization based on unique data of 660 Austrian and German corporations. The larger country (Germany) has larger firms with flatter more decentral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003418955
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Trade in tasks and the organization of firms
Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - 2014
We incorporate trade in tasks à la Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) into a small open economy version of the theory of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010417179
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Corporate Hierarchies and the Size of Nations : Theory and Evidence
Marin, Dalia; Verdier, Thierry - 2007
Corporate organization varies within a country and across countries with country size. The paper starts by establishing some facts about corporate organization based on unique data of 660 Austrian and German corporations. The larger country (Germany) has larger firms with flatter more decentral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050186
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Trade in tasks and the organization of firms
Marin, Dalia; Schymik, Jan; Tarasov, Alexander - 2014
We incorporate trade in tasks à la Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) into a small open economy version of the theory of firm organization of Marin and Verdier (2012) to examine how offshoring affects the way firms organize. We show that the offshoring of production tasks leads firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010438301
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German international trade: Interpreting export flows according to the gravity model
Paulus, Michal; Michalíková, Eva; Benáécek, Vladimír - 2014
The paper applies the gravity model of international trade in its analysis of German exports. The added value of our research is derived from the innovative shift in focus from the traditional gravity model specifications to the national level in order to interpret its estimations in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010420226