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This paper is the first to use the Banque de France database on firm-level exports and imports of services. We first show that firms trading services are bigger, more productive and pay higher wages than the purely domestic ones. Second, exports are very concentrated among a few numbers of...
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that firm markups are positively related to firm productivity and negatively related to the toughness of local competition …
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ambiguity surrounding the productivity gap between Indirect Exporters and Domestic firms indicates that these two categories of …
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sources of heterogeneity – the productivity and the quality margin - are key to understanding these patterns. …
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productivity of local firms. To identify the causal effect of minimum wage growth, we use firm-level data for more than 160 … repercussions on employment. The main explanation for this finding is that productivity significantly improved, allowing firms to … higher minimum wages fostered aggregate productivity growth thanks to productivity improvements of incumbent firms and net …
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In this paper, we study how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and investigate the way this effect is shaped by firm size and more specifically, the number of destinations. Our empirical analysis relies on a French firm-level database that combines...
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This work investigates the motivations behind the Chinese fiscal policy on exports. It relies on very detailed product level (HS 6 digit) data over the period 2002-12 covering both export tax and export VAT rebate. It aims to uncover the respective importance of the various policy motivations...
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