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Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior (Revised version of: Firm-Export Intensity and Productivity, September 2011)

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

We study, both theoretically and empirically, how export intensity (the ratio of exports to sales) is related to firm … strongly negatively correlated with export intensity to low-income destinations and uncorrelated with export intensity to high … plausible assumptions, our model predicts that the elasticity of export intensity to productivity is increasing in per capita …

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New Imported Inputs, New Domestic Products

Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

We study the effects of new imported inputs on the entry of new domestic products and their characteristics. To this purpose, we construct a novel, comprehensive and extremely detailed dataset, which contains product-level information on foreign trade and domestic production for 25 EU countries...

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Imported Inputs and Skill Upgrading

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper studies the effect of imported inputs on relative skilled labor demand. To this purpose, it uses firm-level data for 27 transition countries and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that importing inputs induces skill upgrading: according to a conservative estimate,...

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The Skill Bias of the US Trade Deficit

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We propose a theoretical foundation for a link between North-South trade imbalances and skill upgrading. We provide robust support for our theory using a panel of US manufacturing industries observed between 1977 and 2005. Our results suggest that the impact of the US trade deficit on the...

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Trade Imbalances, Export Structure and Wage Inequality

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study, both theoretically and empirically, how trade imbalances affect the structure of countries' exports and wage inequality. We show that, in a Heckscher-Ohlin model with a continuum of goods, a Southern (Northern) trade surplus leads to an increase (reduction) in the average skill...

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Employment Effects of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Matched Firms

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

This paper studies the e¤ects of service o¤shoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a rich data set of Italian rms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service o¤shoring has no e¤ect on the level of employment but changes its...

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Financial Frictions, Product Quality, and International Trade

Crinò, Rosario; Ogliari, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

unusually rich data on export quality, financial development, and financial vulnerability, covering all manufacturing industries …

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