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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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and production and become aware of how they fare relative to competitors and to their past export performance. To which … at the product level since 2005, to compute indicators of export performance stripped of compositional effects. The … resulting Export Competitiveness Database (ECD) reveals that emerging and developing regions, particularly the Asia and Pacific …
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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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Competitiveness has come to the forefront of the policy debate within the European Union, focusing on price competitiveness and intra-EU imbalances. But how to measure properly competitiveness, beyond price or cost competitiveness, remains an open methodological issue; and what is the resilience...
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Using an econometric shift-share decomposition, we explain the redistribution of world market shares at the level of the product variety and by technological content. We decompose changes in market shares into structural effects (geographical and sectoral) and a pure performance effect. We...
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to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The … database, the Export Competitiveness Database, reveals interesting patterns in trade performance. Export performance, stripped …
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