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Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior (Revised version of: Firm-Export Intensity and Productivity, September 2011)

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

We study, both theoretically and empirically, how export intensity (the ratio of exports to sales) is related to firm … strongly negatively correlated with export intensity to low-income destinations and uncorrelated with export intensity to high … plausible assumptions, our model predicts that the elasticity of export intensity to productivity is increasing in per capita …

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New Imported Inputs, New Domestic Products

Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

We study the effects of new imported inputs on the entry of new domestic products and their characteristics. To this purpose, we construct a novel, comprehensive and extremely detailed dataset, which contains product-level information on foreign trade and domestic production for 25 EU countries...

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Imported Inputs and Skill Upgrading

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper studies the effect of imported inputs on relative skilled labor demand. To this purpose, it uses firm-level data for 27 transition countries and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that importing inputs induces skill upgrading: according to a conservative estimate,...

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Employment Effects of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Matched Firms

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

This paper studies the e¤ects of service o¤shoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a rich data set of Italian rms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service o¤shoring has no e¤ect on the level of employment but changes its...

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Can and Should the EU's Eastern Partnership be Saved?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - CESifo - 2014

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

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EU-Accession Effects on Sectoral Trade: A Helpman-Melitz-Rubinstein Approach with Panel Data

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; Vidovic, Martina; Voicu, … - CESifo - 2014

This paper estimates the effects of the EU enlargements in the 2000s for trade in parts and components and trade in final goods separately. A gravity model is applied to disaggregated trade data over the period 1999-2009 for trade between EU and OECD countries. The estimation approach accounts...

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