Tariff Rates, Offshoring and Productivity: Evidence from German and Austrian Firm-Level Data

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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization in terms of tarif cuts within the Eastern European enlargement on German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains of up to 2 percent. The data allow distinction between three types of tarifs: output, intra-firm and input tarif rates. The size of the results strongly depends on the type of tarif and country analyzed.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2010-21

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation ; Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations ; Multinational Firms; International Business ; Firm Organization and Market Structure ; Organization of Production ; Industrialization; Manufacturing and Service Industries; Choice of Technology
• Subject: tariff rates ; intra-firm trade ; productivity ; trade liberalization ; Zoll ; Handelsliberalisierung ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Auslandsverlagerung ; Produktivität ; Deutschland ; Österreich ; EU-Mitgliedschaft ; Handelsliberalisierung ; EU-Mitgliedschaft

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Hansen, Thorsten
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
• (where): München
• (when): 2010

Further information

• DOI: doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.11465
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/104328
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-11465-1
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET