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Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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/10005151048
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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167317
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Dual Track Reforms: With and Without Losers
Che, Jiahua; Facchini, Giovanni - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2005
The dual track approach to market liberalization has been widely recognized as the key to the success of the Chinese economic reform. In this paper we study the effectiveness of this strategy in economic environments where the status quo government control is incomplete. We show that in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018070
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Do Not Get Trapped into Crossing: Indian Firms and Foreign Markets
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Galeotti, Marzio; Tucci, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2002
’ 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005357798
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - CESifo - 2012
This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535633
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The Collapse Speed of China's Exports in the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis
Jing, Ran - CESifo - 2011
This paper studies the performance of China’s exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China’s exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320783
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Does China Still Have a Labor Cost Advantage?
Ceglowski, Janet; Golub, Stephen - CESifo - 2011
In recent years wages in China have been rising and the yuan has appreciated, potentially eroding China’s cost advantage in manufactures. This paper explores the evolution of China’s relative unit labor costs in manufacturing over 1998-2009. Between 1998 and 2003 China’s unit labor costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323303
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China's Outward FDI: An Industry-level Analysis of Host Country Determinants
Amighini, Alessia; Rabellotti, Roberta; Sanfilippo, Marco - CESifo - 2011
We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using data disaggregated by country and industry. We want to assess the relevance of market-seeking, resource-seeking and strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391727
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Import Competition from and Outsourcing to China: A Curse or Blessing for Firms?
Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
We use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996- 2007 to analyze the impact of imports from different origins on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643555
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Tariff reductions and labor demand elasticities : evidence from Chinese firm-level data
Sato, Hitoshi; Zhu, Lianming - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
heterogenous firm model in which firms are allowed to export their products and to use imported intermediate inputs. The model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010757634