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Exporters’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may … information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A … dollar increase in exports to the United States generates on average an extra 2 to 14 cents of exports to the rest of the …
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-selecting into innovation in anticipation of their entry into export markets, rather than product and process innovation triggering … entry into the export market. These results suggest that governments can foster firm-level innovation through trade …
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aggregate export and import equations. In particular, it considers different choices for scale and price variables, and assesses … provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …
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This paper investigates the effects of ethnic violence on export-oriented firms and their workers. Following the … disputed 2007 Kenyan presidential election, export volumes of flower firms affected by the ensuing violence dropped by 38 … percent and worker absence exceeded 50 percent. Large firms and firms with stable contractual relationships in export markets …
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We conduct a randomized control trial that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 15-25 percent higher profits and...
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share of each country’s exports going to China from 2000 to 2010. China’s growing share of world spending is found to be the …
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that export multiple products with heterogeneous levels of quality. The model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived … response of export volumes to a real depreciation for higher quality goods. We test empirically the predictions of the model by … combining a unique data set of highly disaggregated Argentinean firm-level wine export values and volumes between 2002 and 2009 …
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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 …
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This Paper estimates the cross-price elasticity of exports with respect to investment costs for bilateral relations … between 36 countries. We show that the effect of reducing foreign direct investment costs on exports depends on country … and trade costs are low, investment liberalization stimulates exports, whereas when countries are similar in terms of …
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In this paper we use detailed trade and production data and a theoretically consistent model of demand - the Almost Ideal Demand System - to estimate bilateral trade elasticities, the key parameters required for quantification of the effects of the `1992' programme. Initial results for 70 West...
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