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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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. Services firms are more likely to import than to export. Their prevalent type of trade is trade in goods. The complexity of …
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firms is somewhat less dominated by firms that both export and import than trade by manufacturing firms. In terms of value …. Few firms export many services or to many countries. Those firms that export services to many countries account for a … large share of export value; this is not the case for all countries for the firms which export many services. …
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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...
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proposed by Finger and Kreinin (1979) with product quality. Quality is measured using unit export prices in the tradition of … the horizontal/vertical intra-industry trade literature. We analyse the EU27 countries export structures using 1) overall … measures. We find that the similarity of the export structures of the new member countries and the cohesion countries vis …
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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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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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theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …
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We analyze the role of imitation and innovation in promoting technological progress in new members of European Union: the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. The two modes of technological development—innovation and imitation—are distinguished from one another by identifying the...
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