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Export Subsidies in a Heterogeneous Firms Framework

Helmers, Christian; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

procedure, we obtain firm-specific predicted subsidy amounts that can be explained by the characteristics that determine the … subsidies in developing countries, we regard the discrepancy between the predicted and the observed subsidy amounts as a proxy … diminishing in subsidy size and in the degree of firm’s connectedness to government officials …

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Inventory Control and Intermediation in Global Supply Chains

QU, Zhan; Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

The paper develops a simple theoretical model of inventory control in global supply chains. It identifies a role for intermediaries in managing inventory, and shows that inserting an intermediary as an additional link in a supply chain is profitable when demand volatility is high. It also...

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Foreign Ownership and the Export and Import Propensities of Developing-Country Firms

Boddin, Dominik; Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...

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World Market Access of Emerging-Market Firms: the Role of Foreign Ownership and Access to External Finance

Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for...

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Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence From German Micro-Data

Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial services at the firm level. We use these data to study export market participation and the choice of export mode: cross-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for...

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Do Real Exchange Rate Appreciations Matter for Growth?

Bussière, Matthieu; Lopez, Claude; Tille, Cédric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

While the impact of exchange rate changes on economic growth has long been an issue of key importance in international macroeconomics, it has received renewed attention in recent years, owing to weaker growth rates and the debate on "currency wars". However, in spite of its prevalence in the...

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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports: Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of countries it trades with. We construct a simple theoretical model of how foreign ownership may affect these extensive margins of exports and take this model to data from Germany, one...

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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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International trade in cyberspace : how to tax digital goods

Stehn, Jürgen - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

The paper discusses various possible approaches to turnover taxation in cyberspace. It shows that the main challenge of the new economy is to effectively cope with B2C international trade in digital online goods and services. However, most approaches to turnover taxation discussed in the...

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Why should sub-Saharan Africa care about the Doha development round?

Draper, Peter; Freytag, Andreas; Al Doyaili, Sarah - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

In recent years sub-Saharan Africa, notwithstanding the global financial crisis, has increased its share in global trade and investment flows. This has led to an appreciable improvement in development levels, albeit off a small base. However, these patterns are still dominated by commodity flows...

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