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Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper provides evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of both large and small-medium sized Italian firms. By using detailed qualitative and quantitative information we first identify those firms engaged in international activities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086724
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Decomposing China's Export Growth into Extensive Margin, Export Quality and Quantity Effects
Gao, Yue; Whalley, John; Ren, Yonglei - CESifo - 2013
This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660134
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Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357797
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Cutting Out the Middleman : The Structure of Chains of Intermediation
Grant, Matthew; Startz, Meredith L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Distribution of goods often involves multiple intermediaries engaged in sequential buying and reselling. Why do these chains of intermediation exist, and what are their implications for consumers? We show that multi-intermediary chains arise in response to internal economies of scale in trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013334328
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Inflation Targeting and Real Exchange Rates in Emerging Markets
Aizenman, Joshua - 2008
We investigate inflation targeting (IT) in emerging markets, focusing on the role of the real exchange rate and the distinction between commodity and non-commodity exporters. IT emerging markets appear to follow a "mixed strategy" whereby both inflation and real exchange rates are important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464087
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How Did the Dollar Peg Fail in Asia?
Ito, Takatoshi - 1999
Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the … fluctuation of the growth rate of trade balance is derived. These are the novel features of our model. The export price equation … and export volume equation are estimated for several Asian countries for the sample period of 1981 to 1996. Results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471508
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In Search of Substitution Between Foreign Production and Exports
Blonigen, Bruce A. - 1999
Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? The continuing globalization of production makes the question of the relationship between trade and foreign direct investment ever more important. Standard theory of the multinational corporation (MNC) assumes substitution, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471633
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Exporting and Productivity
Bernard, Andrew B. - 1999
Exporting is often touted as a way to increase economic growth. This paper examines whether exporting has played any role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed positively correlated across manufacturing industries....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471659
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659997
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660079