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Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper provides evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of both large and small-medium sized Italian firms. By using detailed qualitative and quantitative information we first identify those firms engaged in international activities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086724
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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania
Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744794
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Decomposing China's Export Growth into Extensive Margin, Export Quality and Quantity Effects
Gao, Yue; Whalley, John; Ren, Yonglei - CESifo - 2013
This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010660134
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Entry Costs & Increasing Trade
Lincoln, William F.; McCallum, Andrew H. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011
Using confidential microdata from the US Census, we find that the fraction of manufacturing plants that export rose … instead argue that changes in other factors that determine export status are sufficient to explain these trends. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010575338
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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147336
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Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 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/10005357797
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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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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014
It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877822
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Exchange Rate Regimes, Foreign Exchange Volatility and Export Performance in Central and Eastern Europe: Just Another Blur Project?
Égert, Balázs; Morales-Zumaquero, Amalia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
This paper attempts to analyze the direct impact of exchange rate volatility on the export performance of ten Central … aggregate but also bilateral and sectoral export ows are studied. To this end, we rst analyze shifts in exchange rate volatility … export function. The results suggest that the size and the direction of the impact of forex volatility and of regime changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784721