Similar Search Results

U.S. Manufacturing: Productivity, Offshoring, and Imports

Manzan, Sebastiano; Ross, Howard N. - In: Economics Bulletin 31 (2011) 4, pp. 2875-2883

The impact of offshoring on average labor productivity is investigated on a panel of 17 manufacturing sectors between 1989-2006. As proxies for offshoring, we use imports and import penetration, defined as the ratio of imports to output. We disaggregate the universe of exporters into low wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320378

Productivity and the product scope of multi-product firms: a test of Feenstra-Ma

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 415-419

Feenstra and Ma (2008) develop a monopolistic competition model where firms choose their optimal product scope by balancing the profits from a new variety against the costs of “cannibalizing” sales of existing varieties. While more productive firms always have a higher market share, there is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278541

Are low-productive exporters marginal exporters? Evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 467-481

A stylized fact from the emerging literature on the micro-econometrics of international trade and a central implication of the heterogeneous firm models from the new new trade theory is that exporters are more productive than non-exporters. It is argued that this exporter-productivity premium is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278645

Exports, R&D and productivity: a test of the Bustos-model with German enterprise data

Wagner, Joachim - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 1942-1948

This paper presents the first empirical test with German firm level data of a hypothesis derived by Bustos (AER 2011) in a model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to export and to engage in R&D. Using a non-parametric test for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278722

Trade liberalization and inter-industry productivity spillovers: a dynamic spatial panel approach

Paz, Lourenco S. - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 3, pp. 2379-2393

The use of trade liberalization to enhance manufacturing productivity has been a commonly applied policy in several developing countries since the 1980s. This paper proposes a new methodology to estimate the inter-industry productivity spillovers that may occur in such reforms. The findings from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010835840

Competition and Innovation : Pushing Productivity Up or Down?

Brouwer, Erik; van der Wiel, H.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … innovation data from Community Innovation Survey with accounting data to link innovative activities with performance at the … through more innovation. Nonetheless, there exists an inverted U- curve between competition and innovation for the Netherlands …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090737

Strategic Investment Under Uncertainty : Merging Real Options with Game Theory

Huisman, Kuno; Kort, Peter; Pawlina, G.; Thijssen, J.J.J. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

As becomes apparent from the standard text books in industrial organization (cf.Tirole, 1988, The Theory of Industrial Organization), the analysis of the e.ects of uncertainty within this field is yet underdeveloped.This paper shows that the new theory of strategic real options can be used to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091572

Innovation, growth and welfare-improving cycles

Francois, P.; Shi, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011091677

Why Demotion of Older Workers is a No-Go Area for Managers

van Dalen, H.P.; Henkens, K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

Demotion – a reduction of an employee’s rank and salary - is often mentioned by managers and policy makers as a measure to increase the employability of older workers, but in practice demotion is rarely applied. This paper takes a fresh look at the question of demotion by first employing a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268491