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Financial constraints and innovation: Why poor countries don't catch up
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial … constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … constraints strongly adversely affect the ability of domestically owned firms to innovate and to export and hence to catch up to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468676
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086724
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Exports and Information Spillovers
Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497848
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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania
Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …
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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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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
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International Prices and Endogenous Quality
Feenstra, Robert C.; Romalis, John - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
The unit values of internationally traded goods are heavily influenced by quality. We model this in an extended monopolistic competition framework where, in addition to choosing price, firms simultaneously choose quality. We allow countries to have non-homothetic demand for quality. The optimal...
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Trade Liberalization, Quality, and Export Prices
Yeaple, Stephen Ross; Fan, Haichao; Li, Yao Amber - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
's producers to upgrade the quality of the goods that they export. The paper first documents two stylized facts regarding the … effect of trade liberalization on export prices and its relation with product differentiation. Next, the paper develops a … raise its export price in industries where the scope for quality differentiation is large while to lower its export price in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951179
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Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357797
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Trade and Inequality in India
Krishna, Pravin; Sethupathy, Guru - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
To study the effects of the dramatic economic reforms undertaken in India in the early 1990s on inequality, this paper examines Theil inequality as well as other inequality measures constructed using Indian household expenditure survey data from 1988-2005. Overall inequality shows some variation...
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