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LOCATIONAL DETERMINANTS OF US FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT IN FOOD AND KINDRED PRODUCTS IN LATIN AMERICA
Padilla, Luis; Richards, Timothy J. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 1999
As US investment in food processors abroad grows, understanding the factors causing this growth is critical to US trade and investment policy. This study uses an ownership / location / internalization approach in finding market size and trade openness important determinants of US foreign direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005494104
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Determinants of World Demand for U.S. Corn Seeds: The Role of Trade Costs
Jayasinghe, Sampath; Beghin, John C.; Moschini, GianCarlo - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2008
with a detailed analysis of trade costs impeding exports flows to various markets. Trade costs include costs associated … with distance, tariffs, and sanitary-phytosanitary (SPS) regulations imposed by foreign countries on U.S. corn seed exports … 2004. We find that all trade costs matter and have had a negative impact on U.S. corn seed exports. Tariffs matter most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005804636
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Does the WTO Increase Trade? The Case of U.S. Cocoa Imports from WTO-Member Producing Countries
Yeboah, Osei-Agyeman; Shaik, Saleem; Wozniak, Shawn J.; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
Replaced with revised version of paper 06/08/2010.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020259
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Implications of Immigration Policies for the U.S. Farm Sector and Workforce
Devadoss, Stephen; Luckstead, Jeff - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
immigration policies increase the illegal farm wage rate, and reduce the employment of unauthorized farm workers and exports. The … 8947 and commodity exports to Mexico by an average of $180 million. The tighter border control curbs illegal farm workers … by 8147 and reduces farm exports by $181 million. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020467
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History matters for the export decision and the volume exported: Firm-level evidence from French agri-food firms
Latouche, Karine; Shonkwiler, John Scott; … - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2010
in Colombia or Turkey respectively. Only a few studies have accounted either for the destination of the exports or for … vary across export markets? A multivariate dynamic panel model of French agribusiness firms' exports to two aggregate … markets (EU and Rest of the World) is specified. The model accounts for both zero level and positively skewed exports by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020664
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Do Exports Raise Productivity? Plant-level Evidence from the Colombian Agri-food Industries
Kandilov, Ivan T.; Liu, Xiangping - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011
Using detailed plant-level manufacturing Census data from the Colombian Agri-food industries, we show that exports … occasional exporters does not change at all. Hence, the positive impact of exports on productivity for is driven by the large … positive impact on persistent exporters. To identify the effect of exports on plant-level productivity we employ the Levinsohn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021084
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Financial health, exports, and rm survival: Evidence from UK and French firms
Spaliara, Marina-Eliza; Georg, Holger - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We use firm level data to assess the role of exporting in the link between financial health and rm survival. The data are for the UK and France. We examine whether fi rms at diff erent stages of export activity (starters, exiters, continuers, switchers) react di fferently to changes in financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878982
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The Effects of Exports on Facility Environmental Performance: Evidence from a Matching Approach
Cui, Jingbo; Qian, Hang - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2013
This paper employs matching techniques to investigate the effects of facility export status on environmental performance. Using facility-level criteria air emission data in the U.S. manufacturing industry, we find the industry-specific effects of export status on emission intensity, measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916069
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Vertical Ownership and Trade: Firm-level evidence from France
Gaigne, Carl; Latouche, Karine; Turolla, Stephane - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
In this paper, we study the impact of acquiring equity shares in intermediaries on ex- port performance. We develop a trade model with vertically linked industries where the decisions to export and to own its intermediary are endogenous that we test on French data at the firm level. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010916509
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The Impact of Trade Costs on Firm Entry, Exporting, and Survival in Korea
Kim, Sooil; Reimer, Jeffrey J.; Gopinath, Munisamy - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2009
This study uses a unique firm-level dataset to examine how falling trade costs from 1993-2001 affected entry, exit, productivity, and exporting in the Korean manufacturing sector. We verify many of the predictions of recent heterogeneous-firm models of international trade. For example, falling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012610