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Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms

Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

This paper provides evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of both large and small-medium sized Italian firms. By using detailed qualitative and quantitative information we first identify those firms engaged in international activities...

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Decomposing China's Export Growth into Extensive Margin, Export Quality and Quantity Effects

Gao, Yue; Whalley, John; Ren, Yonglei - CESifo - 2013

This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …

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Uncertain Productivity Growth and the Choice between FDI and Export

Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2009

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …

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Heterogeneous Firms in a Product Fragmentation World

Gao, Yue; Whalley, John - CESifo - 2013

, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …

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The Margins of Multinational Production and the Role of Intra-firm trade

Irarrazabal, Alfonso; Moxnes, Andreas; Opromolla, Luca David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

In this paper we ask why the gravity model of international trade also work well for foreign direct investment (FDI) flows or multinational production (MP). We propose a model of trade and horizontal FDI, where the subsidiary is allowed to source inputs from the headquarters. Under certain...

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Internationalization choices: an ordered probit analysis at industry-level

Pietrovito, Filomena; Pozzolo, Alberto Franco; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

Trade theory traces back different patterns of internationalization to heterogeneity between firms, measured both through differences in productivity levels and size. In this paper we analyze the link-between heterogeneity within sectors and internationalization choices, namely trade and foreign...

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Political limits on the world oil trade : firm-level evidence from US firms

Kashcheeva, Mila - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

International politics affect trade patterns, especially for firms in extractive industries. We construct the firm-level dataset for the U.S. oil-importing companies over 1986-2010 to test whether the state of international relations with the trading partners of the U.S. affect importing...

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Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe

Simone, Gianfranco De; Manchin, Miriam - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (network effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible \"diaspora...

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Modes of Delivery in Services

Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We develop a new analytical framework for both cross-border services trade and services trade through foreign affiliates, based on heterogeneous firms operating under oligopoly. This leads to direct predictions about choice of services delivery (mode of delivery) at the firm level, and about the...

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Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services

Fillat Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph; Woerz, Julia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Working with a panel dataset of of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model jointly to services trade and commercial...

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