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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010690383
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Endogenous Product versus Process Innovation and a Firm’s Propensity to Export
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter - CESifo - 2007
This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416461
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Productivity, Price- and Wage-Markups: An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Manufacturing Industry
Amoroso, Sara; Melenberg, Bertrand; Plasmans, Joseph; … - CESifo - 2015
This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210785
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Offshoring along the Production Chain
Harms, Philipp; Lorz, Oliver; Urban, Dieter M. - CESifo - 2009
Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196266
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Do Entrepreneurs Matter?
Becker, Sascha O.; Hvide, Hans K. - CESifo - 2013
In the large literature on firm performance, economists have given little attention to entrepreneurs. We use deaths of more than 500 entrepreneurs as a source of exogenous variation, and ask whether this variation can explain shifts in firm performance. Using longitudinal data, we find large and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607007
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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - CESifo - 2013
results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877649
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Firm Performance and Trade with Low-Income Countries: Evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - CESifo - 2014
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888447
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Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms: Does Liberalization Matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - CESifo - 2010
’ productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534010
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Development-Related Biases in Factor Productivities and the HOV Model of Trade
Maskus, Keith E.; Nishioka, Shuichiro - CESifo - 2008
resuscitate HOV by introducing a simple Hicks-neutral (HN) factor-productivity adjustment, an approach that was heavily criticized …. In this paper, we re-examine the productivity question by estimating factor-specific productivities from the individual …-augmenting technological differences. In particular, the factor-productivity adjustment works well for developed members of the OECD. Further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406445
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Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export: Theory and Evidence
Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Lapham, Beverly - CESifo - 2008
consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of … aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and industry export activity along both the extensive and intensive margins. Using … productivity and shipping costs using Chilean plant-level data for a set of manufacturing industries. The estimated model is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094369