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export share and productivity gains. Productivity growth declines with the share of exports on total sales, up to a threshold …, productivity gains also arise for smaller export shares. One likely explanation of this finding is that being successful in the … export market for exporters of traditional products also requires investments in technological upgrading. These investments …
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significant and positive effect on host country exports, suggesting that export-platform FDI may be important for the East Asian …, providing further evidence that the export-platform FDI strategy applies for the East Asian economies. …
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This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more … this negative impact, especially on the intensive margin of export. These results provide micro-founded evidence suggesting …
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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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speed to firms with past experience of innovation activities and with established export market contacts. Second … how attributes of MNEs and non-MNEs differ, and how these differences affect the productivity and export intensity. It …
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paper analyzes (i) the relationship between technology specialization and export specialization across regions and (ii) how … the technology specialization of origin and destination affect the size and structure of link-specific export flows. We … find that the export specialization of a region typically corresponds to the region’s technology specialization, which …
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. We further show that selection also applies to number of products traded. Both export and import productivity premiums …
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We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break intoexport markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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constraints and export activities using data at the level of the firm. This paper presents a tabular survey of 32 empirical …: Financial constraints are important for the export decisions of firms – exporting firms are less financially constrained than …
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This paper is concerned with the productivity and growth of Swedish exporting firms. Using data on 9,580 manufacturing firms with 10 or more employees for the period 1997-2008, it estimates a dynamic GMM model that captures both the impact of recurrent knowledge investment through innovation and...
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