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productivity growth in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs) in the period 1995-2007. Using industry-level data and …-run productivity growth. Industries of higher-end technology intensity have experienced substantially higher productivity growth and so …
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traditional view has been that exporting can lead to increased productivity by facilitating access to the global market and, thus …-parametric estimation method to measure firm-level productivity, and examined the contingent impacts of the observed firms' exports on their … productivity. On the one hand, the exporting firms exhibited significantly higher productivity and faster growth than the non …
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view is that exporting can lead to increased productivity by facilitating access to the global market and, thus … by mixed empirical evidence. We used a semiparametric estimation method to measure firm-level productivity and examined … the contingent impacts of exports on productivity. It was found that on the one hand, the exporting firms exhibited …
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We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main results are: (i) Exporting is positively...
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We use a unique cross-section survey of manufacturing firms from four European countries (France, Germany, Italy, Spain) linked with balance sheet data to study the relationship between key aspects of globalization and firm-level markups. The main results are: (i) Exporting is positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011538046
Using data from Ufficio italiano dei cambi for the period 1997-2001, the study analyses the distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) outflows by sector and local area of origin. It tries to identify which local industrial structures determine a larger propensity to invest abroad, focusing...
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More than one in four patents that major German companies apply for is based on inventions from their research laboratories abroad. In three quarters of the cases, the companies have focused on technologies in which they are very strong at home. Therefore, to a great extent the technological...
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In recent years, German companies have invested more in research and development (R&D) abroad. After a prolonged plateau period, the proportion of investment abroad rose to around 35 percent; concurrently R&D expenditure in Germany has continued to rise sharply. Growth abroad did not occur at...
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In an integrated global economy, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have more opportunities than ever to reap the benefits of broader markets and more possibilities for an extensive division of labour between different locations. In spite of this, the evidence on the spread of the activities of...
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The study analyses the relationships between capital dynamics, productivity, global value chains and foreign direct … capital for productivity and GVC integration. We examine the extent of underinvestment in ICT in the EU relative to other …
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