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information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …
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This paper examines how trade liberalization affects investments in R&D at the firm level. In a model where entrepreneurs are heterogeneous in their wealth endowment, they rely differently on external funds. In the presence of capital market imperfections, this implies heterogeneous access to...
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This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …
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investigates the link between outsourcing and innovation empirically using firm-level data for over 20 emerging market economies …
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constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities. Theoretical predictions are tested using unique firm survey data … these constraints force export and innovation activities to become substitutes even when these activities are natural … level of income and export intensity. Specifically, the paper investigates theoretically and empirically how financial …
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This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets they serve, and update their beliefs as noisy...
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export supply elasticities. Dispute settlement outcome differences are also explained by variation in institutionally …
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The impact of protection on economic growth is one of the traditional issues in economic history, which has enjoyed a revival in recent times, with the publication of a number of comparative quantitative papers. They all share a common weakness: they measure protection with the ratio of custom...
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This paper examines the importance of buyer-supplier relationships, geography and the structure of the production network in firm performance. We develop a simple model where firms can outsource tasks and search for suppliers in different locations. Low search and outsourcing costs lead firms to...
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unusually rich data on export quality, financial development, and financial vulnerability, covering all manufacturing industries …
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