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Knowledge, Location, and Internationalization: Empirical Evidence for Manufacturing SMEs
Lejpras, Anna - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper investigates the links between locational conditions, innovative capabilities and internationalization of manufacturing SMEs. Two modes of foreign market servicing are explored: exporting activity and relocating of selected business activities abroad. The empirical analysis employs...
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Russian Natural Gas Exports to Europe: Effects of Russian Gas Market Reforms and the Rising Market Power of Gazprom
Sagen, Eirik Lund; Tsygankova, Marina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006
alter the allocation of Gazprom´s gas sales between domestic and export markets. In this paper we use both theoretical and … for Gazprom to induce monopoly power in its export markets. Our main findings suggest that both increased domestic gas … low domestic prices, Gazprom may even have difficulties to carry out its long-term export commitments. However, if export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068939
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Goods Follow Bytes: The Impact of ICT on EU Trade
Mattes, Anselm; Meinen, Philipp; Pavel, Ferdinand - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
This paper empirically assesses whether the deployment and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure at the national level affects trade flows within the European Union (EU) and between the EU and its main trading partners. The analysis tests the hypothesis that...
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Trade Policy Uncertainty and the WTO
Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2014
Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...
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Liquidity and the Dynamic Pattern of Asset Price Adjustment: A Global View
Belke, Ansgar; Orth, Walter; Setzer, Ralph - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009
Global liquidity expansion has been very dynamic since 2001. Contrary to conventional wisdom, high money growth rates have not coincided with a concurrent rise in goods prices. At the same time, however, asset prices have increased sharply, significantly outpacing the subdued development in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008490051
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Price Cost Margins and Exporting Behaviour: Evidence from Firm Level Data
Görg, Holger; Warzynski, Frederic - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005068958
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Die Energiewirtschaft am Kaspischen Meer: enttäuschte Erwartungen - unsichere Perspektiven
Engerer, Hella; Hirschhausen, Christian von - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 1998
The growing literature on the potential role of energy resources around the Caspian Sea is dominated by geoplitics whereas economic aspects have been largely neglected thus far. The relevance of Caspian oil and gas reserves continues to be praised, though objective data on production and exports...
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Determinants of Trade with Solar Energy Technology Components: Evidence on the Porter Hypothesis?
Groba, Felix - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011
regulation leads to a comparative export advantage. Empirical studies testing both hypotheses reach diverging conclusions and … policies and import tariffs determine export flows of solar energy technology components. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325379
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International Knowledge Spillovers through High-Tech Imports and R&D of Foreign-Owned Firms
Belitz, Heike; Mölders, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
The international transmission of knowledge through import spillovers, as a source of TFP growth, has received much attention in the literature. We investigate two additional direct channels through which R&D disseminates: the import of high-technology goods and the internationalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128847
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Exchange Rate Bands of Inaction and Play-Hysteresis in German Exports: Sectoral Evidence for Some OECD Destinations
Belke, Ansgar; Göcke, Matthias; Günther, Martin - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2012
exports is then estimated based on quarterly data from 1995Q1 to 2010Q3. For some of the main export partners of Germany …
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