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This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
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constraints and export activities using data at the level of the firm. This paper presents a tabular survey of 32 empirical …: Financial constraints are important for the export decisions of firms - exporting firms are less financially constrained than …
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of 34 studies covering 26 countries around the world, and in doing so, we provide nine findings. We show export boosting … policies are heterogenenous by design and include export promotion policies, public grants for exporters, public export … guarantee schemes, subsidised export loans, and randomised foreign market access programmes. Our review provides insights into …
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evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …
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evidence in favor of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favor of the …
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We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...
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Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed significant new developments, both on the theoretical...
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We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions against the backdrop of multi-sector versions of the models...
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Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of microeconometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...
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