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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele - 2019

agriculture is likely to be smooth …

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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …

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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study

Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019

We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...

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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space

Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022

This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...

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Firm Exports, Foreign Ownership, and the Global Financial Crisis

Eppinger, Peter S.; Smolka, Marcel - 2021

The exceptional export performance of foreign-owned firms is a well-established stylized fact, but the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood. In this paper, we provide theory and empirical evidence demonstrating that this fact can be explained by ownership differences in access to...

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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects

Büttner, Thiess - 2019

This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based on the ultimate investing country concept. We use a...

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Distance and the Multinational Wage Premium

Egger, Hartmut - 2019

Combining administrative data on German workers with commercial data on German firms, we find evidence for a distance effect on the multinational wage premium: Foreign multinationals pay lower wages than German multinationals if the ultimate owner is located in close proximity to Germany,...

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Foreign Ownership and Skillbiased Technological Change

Koch, Michael - 2019

We conduct an empirical investigation into the effects of foreign ownership on worker skills using firm-level data from Spain. To control for endogeneity bias due to selection into foreign ownership, we combine a difference-in-differences approach with a propensity score weighting estimator. Our...

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Preferential Trade Agreements and Global Sourcing

Ornelas, Emanuel - 2019

We study how a preferential trade agreement (PTA) affects international sourcing decisions, aggregate productivity and welfare under incomplete contracting and endogenous matching. Contract incompleteness implies underinvestment. That inefficiency is mitigated by a PTA, because the agreement...

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Investment in OECD Countries : A Primer

Égert, Balázs - 2021

Aggregate business investment is a major driver of long-term economic growth. It has been weak in many advanced economies over the last decade, partly due to cyclical demand-side effects. Nevertheless, a number of structural factors and policies interact with and have an effect on business...

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