schungsschwerpunkt Internationale Wirtschaft, or FIW for short) organised the 15th FIW-Workshop which was dedicated to 'The Trade-Productivity Nexus in the European Economy', focusing on empirical evidence from firm level data. The Workshop took place on the premises of the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) and was attended by a mixed audience of academics and policy ma...

This is a background paper prepared for an informal expert meeting of the Development Assistance Committee of the OECD. It discusses technical assistance on trade for the least developed and poorer countries and tries to explore alternative partnership approaches for building new trade capacity. It focuses on trade policy more than on trade promotion strategies. The paper identifies four differ...

internationalization is a matter of committed decision-making that starts with export marketing, in which an organization tries to diagnose and use opportunities in target markets based on realistic evaluation of internal strengths and weaknesses with analysis of macro and microenvironments in order to gain presence in other countries. a developed model for export and international marketing of...

Export and the readiness to export constitute the first step of international marketing, which are affected by both internal and external factors of firms. One of the most important internal  factors is the presence of skilled personnel. The purpose of this study was to define the relationship between staff qualification and encouragment with the readiness level of Iranian pharmacuetical firms ...

This research study is related to FDI and GDP and the main aim of this research study is to validate the relationship between them. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered as a growth accelerating component that has received a great attention in developed countries even in developing and less developed countries during recent years. Now FDI has greater importance in closed economy. FDI be...

This paper makes an empirical investigation of the structures of employment and earnings associated with possible alternative trade strategies for Thailand. The authors focus on ascertaining who owns the factors of production that would be rewarded by the changes in trade structure under consideration. Their simulation is based on an extended input-output analysis, using Thailand’s recent socia...

Introduction & Context Trade by its very nature enables specialisation, exploits economies of scale, and generates competition in markets. This results in efficient allocation of resources and enhancement of productivity, which are at the heart of economic progress. Some highlights from recent studies on trade liberalisation and its impact on economic growth and development are as follows: • A ...

OF THESIS By using a longitudinal dataset of over 200 privatised industrial companies, covering the period 1995-1998, data analysis was carried out to explore two main issues: which factors determine export activity; and which firm characteristics determine the presence of a foreign partner in a host firm? The determinants of export intensity and propensity were examined by a wide variety of te...

This paper is part of a collaborative research project entitled The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in Asian Economic Development (1960-95) which was sponsored by the Asian Development Bank. The study included six Asian economies: People's Republic of China (PRC), India, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Taiwan,China. Oxford University Press is publishing the comparative report. This es...