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This study provides evidence that shocks to the supply of trade finance have a causal effect on U.S. exports. The … a U.S. bank’s share of the trade finance market in a country is, the larger should be the effect on exports to that …’s supply of letters of credit increases export growth, on average, by 1.5 percentage points. The effect is larger for exports …
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I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm’s decision about serving foreign customers through exports …
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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 than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the 2000-2006 period....
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“Northern” group’s exports to other EU15 countries (which have remained intact), the Southern countries’s exports to the other …
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-off between exports and foreign direct investment as alternative modes of foreign market access. The paper derives comparative …
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technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively …
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Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms’ financial health, borrowing ratio and export exit, paying special attention to the recent financial crisis. Our results show that deterioration in the financial position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit...
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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...
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This paper presents a dynamic model of risk-averse producers’ decision to invest in physical capital and to export. The model features irreversible investment, no capital markets and fixed and sunk costs to export. Several features of the distribution of investment rates and export...
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Unions are often stigmatized as being a source of inefficiency due to higher collective bargaining outcomes. This is in stark contrast with the descriptive evidence presented in this paper. Larger firms choose to export and are also more likely to adopt collective bargaining. We rationalize...
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