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Patterns of International Fragmentation of Production and Implications for the Labor Markets

Helg, Rodolfo; Tajoli, Lucia - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2002

Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to another to combine manufacturing or services activities at home with those performed abroad. This configuration of the productive structure has been named “internationally...

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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-level Evidence from Germany

Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - CESifo - 2014

It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms’ exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...

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Does Innovation Cause Exports? Evidence from Exogenous Innovation Impulses and Obstacles

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

exogenous to firms’ export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

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Exporting under Trade Policy Uncertainty: Theory and Evidence

Handley, Kyle - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2012

I provide novel evidence for the impact of trade policy uncertainty on exporters. In a dynamic, heterogeneous firms model, trade policy uncertainty will delay the entry of exporters into new markets and make them less responsive to applied tariff reductions. Policy instruments that reduce or...

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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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Gotcha! A Profile of Smuggling in International Trade

Berger, Helge; Nitsch, Volker - CESifo - 2008

interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the …

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Myanmar's Economic Relations with China: Can China Support the Myanmar Economy?

Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2006

Against the background of closer diplomatic, political and security ties between Myanmar and China since 1988, their economic relations have also grown stronger throughout the 1990s and up to 2005. China is now a major supplier of consumer and capital goods to Myanmar, in particular through...

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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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Gains from Offshoring? Evidence from U.S. Microdata

Monarch, Ryan; Park, Jooyoun; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - Research Seminar in International Economics, University … - 2013

We construct a new linked data set with over one thousand offshoring events by matching Trade Adjustment Assistance program petition data to micro-data from the U.S. Census Bureau. We exploit this data to assess how offshoring impacts domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and...

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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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