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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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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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Trade and Labor Standards.

Brown, K.D.; Deardorff, A.V.; Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1997

There is a wide disparity of views on issues of international labor standards. The purpose of this paper is to explore these different views and the available options for addressing the issues involved. We conclude that there is no convincing case for incorporating labor standards into the WTO...

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Frim Heterogeneity, Jobs, and International Trade: Evidence from Chile.

Levinsohn, J. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1996

This paper is about jobs and international trade. It is about researchers can learn fo relationship between the two using firm-level data.

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Exports and Property Prices in France: Are they Connected?

Egert, Balazs; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - CESifo - 2010

France has seen a marked deterioration in its export performance in the last 10 years or so. Previous empirical … research pointed out that weak export performance was due to i) vigorous domestic demand; ii) lower mark-ups due to head …-to-head competition with Germany; iii) low non-price competitiveness of French export goods; iv) offshoring of entire production processes …

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Issues of Trade and International Labor Standards in the WTO System.

Stern, R.M. - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 1996

The initial motivation for this paper was to consider whether international labor standards should be incorporated into the rules and mandate of the WTO.

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Firms' Exporting Behavior under Quality Constraints

Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2011

We develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of firm heterogeneity and export quality constraints that … exporter premia cannot be rationalized through these models as they imply no variation in export status once size is controlled … strong support for the model. We also investigate the sources of export quality constraints using firm-level trade shipment …

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