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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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This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...
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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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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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processes induced by its import and export links with foreign markets. By using microdata for a large sample of Spanish  … starting to export. In a sequence, exporting may enable Â…rms to introduce further innovations. These positive learning e …
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This paper studies whether trade integration between the EU15 and Central Europe has led to more export specialization … in Central Europe. Moreover, we analyze the impact of institutional reforms in Central Europe on export specialization … that a reduction in tariffs between EU15 and Central Europe led to increased export specialization in Central Europe. In …
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Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between export- ing and productivity this paper … het- erogeneous frms that generates learning effects through competition in the export markets. The estimations performed …
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heterogeneous firms that generates learning effects through competition in the export markets. The estimations performed on the …
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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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