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Outsourcing potentials and international tradability of jobs : evidence from German micro-level data ; conference paper

Brändle, Tobias; Koch, Andreas - 2013

between outsourcing potential and international tradability and systematically uses a large set of potential determinants of … organizational and spatial relocation derived from the existing literature on offshoring. Applying principal component analysis, we … are able to compute two indicators explaining both the outsourcing potential and the international tradability of an …

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Cross-border price effects of mergers and acquisitions : a quantitative framework for competition policy ; conference paper

Breinlich, Holger; Nocke, Volker; Schutz, Nicolas - 2013

Decisions of national competition authorities have important effects on other jurisdictions. We provide a framework to quantify the domestic and cross-border effects of mergers, and to draw conclusions for the coordination of national merger policies. We develop a two-country model with many...

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Trade and the firm-internal allocation of workers to tasks : conference paper

Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael - 2013

This paper looks inside the firm and investigates how trade alters the matching of worker-specific abilities and task-specific requirements. The outcome of this matching depends on how firms organize their recruitment process and how much they invest into the screening of applicants. In the open...

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Icebergs versus tariffs : a quantitative perspective on the gains from trade ; conference paper

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2013

We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall. Covering various one-sector trade models that may or may not feature extensive margins and imperfect competition, we generalize the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and...

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Regional implications of financial market development : credit rationing, trade, and location ; conference paper

Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2013

We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard. Mitigating financial frictions reduces the incentive of high-skilled workers to migrate to one region such that an unequal distribution of industrial activity becomes less...

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Export market risk and the role of public credit guarantees : conference paper

Heiland, Inga; Yalçin, Erdal - 2014

In this paper we analyze the impact of public export credit guarantees on firms' exports. Earlier studies show that export credit guarantees stimulate exports, employment, and value added. Furthermore, there is evidence at the aggregate level that financial market imperfections are key to...

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Vertical integration and supplier finance : conference paper

Kersting, Erasmus K.; Görg, Holger - 2014 - December 19, 2013

We investigate the financial implications of a multinational firm's choice between outsourcing and integration from the …

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Access to finance, foreign ownership, and foreign takeovers in Germany : conference paper

Wagner, Joachim; Weche, John P. - 2014 - February 2014

With this paper we present the first microeconometric analysis of the impact of a foreign acquisition on the target firms' access to finance. By using a large database of German firms we furthermore investigate for the first time the link between foreign ownership and access to finance in...

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