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Greasing the wheels of international commerce: how services facilitate firms' international sourcing

Debaere, Peter; Görg, Holger; Raff, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...

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Financial health, exports, and firm survival: A comparison of British and French firms

Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

We examine the differential effects of financial status and exporting activity on the likelihood of survival for firms in the UK and France - two countries with different financial systems. We aim to answer two main questions: What is the direct impact of financial characteristics and different...

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Can trade really hurt? An empirical follow-up on Samuelson's controversial paper

Bitzer, Jürgen; Görg, Holger; Schröder, Philipp - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper investigates Samuelson's (JEP, 2004) argument that technical progress of the trade partner may hurt the home …

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Wage subsidies and international trade: When does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, which suggests that there are benefits from international policy coordination. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an...

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Wage subsidies and international trade: When does policy coordination pay?

Braun, Sebastian; Spielmann, Christian - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592858

Trade protection during the crisis: Does it deter foreign direct investment?

Görg, Holger; Labonte, Philipp - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

available from Global Trade Alert, combined with bilateral FDI data between OECD countries and a large number of partner … specifications suggest that, depending on the empirical model, the implementation of a trade protection measure is associated with … about 40 to 80 percent lower FDI inflows. Trade protection does not appear to have any implications for the country’s FDI …

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany. First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

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