Similar Search Results

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

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

Uncertain Productivity Growth and the Choice between FDI and Export

Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2009

between export and FDI. The model combines the proximity-concentration trade-off framework with the real option methodology …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534026

Heterogeneous Firms in a Product Fragmentation World

Gao, Yue; Whalley, John - CESifo - 2013

, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652445

Can and Should the EU's Eastern Partnership be Saved?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - CESifo - 2014

In a major setback for the EU, only two of four Eastern Partnership countries actually initialed Association Agreements at the Vilnius Summit in November 2013. This paper asks what went wrong and what can be done about it. Using a gravity model to estimate the effects of deep and shallow free...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877942

Incomplete Specialization and Offshoring across Europe

Frensch, Richard; Hanousek, Jan; Kocenda, Evžen - CESifo - 2012

Recent empirical studies have been searching for evidence on and driving forces for offshoring. Frequently, this has been done by analyzing gross trade flows related to offshore activities using gravity equations augmented by ad hoc measures of supply-side country differences. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010548148

Internationalization choices: an ordered probit analysis at industry-level

Pietrovito, Filomena; Pozzolo, Alberto Franco; … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2013

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010640987

Political limits on the world oil trade : firm-level evidence from US firms

Kashcheeva, Mila - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

International politics affect trade patterns, especially for firms in extractive industries. We construct the firm-level dataset for the U.S. oil-importing companies over 1986-2010 to test whether the state of international relations with the trading partners of the U.S. affect importing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633407

Brain Drain with FDI Gain? Factor Mobility between Eastern and Western Europe

Simone, Gianfranco De; Manchin, Miriam - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008

A growing strand of literature highlights that skilled migration may favour growth-enhancing technology transfer, trade and foreign direct investments between the source and the host economies of migrants (network effects). We explore a specific channel through which the possible \"diaspora...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962221

FDI, Trade Integration and the Border Effect: Evidence from the European Union

Román, Valeriano Martínez-San; Bengoa, Marta; … - CESifo - 2014

This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern –horizontal versus vertical– within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790167