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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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Openness and Technological Innovations in Developing Countries: Evidence from Firm-Level Surveys
Almeida, Rita; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper examines international technology transfers using firm-level data across 43 developing countries. Our findings show that exporting and importing activities are important channels for the transfer of technology. Majority foreign-owned firms are less likely to engage in technological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822275
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
over other exporters into the Chinese market. While there is evidence of decreased export bundle concentration and movement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884140
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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884325
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Productivity and Size of the Export Market: Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are … more productive than firms that sell their products in Germany only, but less productive than firms that export to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233759
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The Microstructure of the Great Export Collapse in German Manufacturing Industries, 2008/2009
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653980
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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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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival: First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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