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Cultural integration and export variety overlap across countries

Egger, Peter; Lassman, Andrea - 2014

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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Indirect exporters and importers

Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2015

trade. In particular, we account for the possibility that firms can not only export their products, but also internationally … than those resorting to an export intermediary, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly …

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Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries

Pertl, Leonhard (contributor); Schiavo, Stefano (contributor) - International Study Group on Exports and Productivity - 2008

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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An econometric view on the estimation of gravity models and the calculation of trade potentials

Egger, Peter - 2001

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The taxing deed of globalization

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2016 - This draft: April 2016

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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Trade costs in the global economy : measurement, aggregation and decomposition

Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario; Nigai, Sergey; Yotov, Yoto - 2021 - Manuscript date: 10 May 2018

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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Empirical productivity distributions and international trade

Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina; Nigai, Sergey - 2021 - This draft: March 2021

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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Effects of the endogenous scope of preferentialism on international goods trade

Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - 2013

Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism such as services trade or investment preferentialism are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader scope...

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Panel data gravity models of international trade

Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Pfaffermayr, Michael - 2014

One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply of goods, services, and factors across national or subnational borders (see Leamer and Levinsohn, 1995). The respective empirical models specified and estimated are often...

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Does finance really matter for the participation of SMEs in international trade? : evidence from 8,080 East Asian firms

Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014

This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …

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