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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 …

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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...

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Maquiladoras and Informality: A Mixed Blessing

Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; Riaño, Alejandro - CESifo - 2011

Mexico experienced a tremendous expansion of its export-processing maquila sector during the 1990s. At the same time, a …

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China's Outward FDI: An Industry-level Analysis of Host Country Determinants

Amighini, Alessia; Rabellotti, Roberta; Sanfilippo, Marco - CESifo - 2011

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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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms

Héricourt, Jérôme; Poncet, Sandra - CESifo - 2013

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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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...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Technology Transfer and Exports in Developing Countries

Yang, Lei; Maskus, Keith E. - CESifo - 2008

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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Foreign Ownership and the Extensive Margins of Exports: Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany

Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - CESifo - 2013

theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

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Technological Imitation and Innovation in New European Union Markets

Uzagalieva, Ainura; Kocenda, Evžen; Menezes, Antonio - CESifo - 2010

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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Global Sourcing Decisions and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Spain

Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - CESifo - 2009

We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm’s choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...

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