Research

The chair's current research can be divided into three main areas

1. The subject of research in the first main area is the export behaviour of companies. Based on and further developing the new trade theory for heterogeneous companies, we derive new theoretical implications for the export behaviour of companies and test these empirically. For example, we explain how productivity differences between exporting and non-exporting companies established in the literature are structurally determined or model various explanatory approaches for ultra-short export events and test these empirically.
In the second main area, we deal with the labour market and the productivity effects of offshoring. The focus is on the empirical modelling of the extensive and intensive expansion of offshoring on the basis of matched employer-employee data. The extensive expansion of offshoring is analysed both with regard to the discrete corporate decision to engage in offshoring or not, as well as with regard to the affected products and processes. The focus here is on the delimitation of the productivity-related selection process into different > The third research area deals with the adaptation of companies and industries to increased international competition, particularly from emerging economies. Based on detailed firm-level data from a small open economy (Denmark), we quantify the competitive pressure at the product and market level over time and quantify different adjustment channels at the industry and firm level. We are particularly interested in the adjustment potential of firms that are permanently present in the market and the selection into different adjustment channels such as product innovation and quality improvement.