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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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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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Patterns and Determinants of International Trade Costs in the Food Industry
Olper, Alessandro; Raimondi, Valentina - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2007
This paper documents patterns in international trade costs in processed foods for a large cross-section of developing and developed countries, during the 1976-2000 period. A trade costs index is inferred from a micro-founded gravity equation that incorporates bilateral `iceberg?trade costs. For...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005449593
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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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Rural development, international markets and labour appropriation by sex: a case study of l'oulja region, Morocco.
L, Beneria - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1986
export, and the agricultural employment of rural women under a traditional sharecropping system in the Oulja region of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965710
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Adjustment in a small open economy: the case of the Netherlands.
G, De Groot; B, Evers - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1983
ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on industrial structure change in a small open economy, comprising a case study of adjustment successes in the Netherlands - discusses the economic structure, economic growth trends (1960-1983), and impact of economic recession and international division of labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965722
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Rural poverty in Central America: dimensions, causes and policy alternatives.
P, Peek - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1984
studies; looks at agricultural incomes, wages, and other poverty-linked economic indicators; examines impact of the export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010966008