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Entry costs and adjustments on the extensive margin - an analysis of how familiarity breeds exports

Andersson, Martin - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2007

that familiarity should primarily affect the extensive margin (number of exporters) of exports. This hypothesis is tested … by estimating a gravity equation on a panel that describes Swedish firms’ exports to 150 destination countries over a … of aggregate exports is primarily due to adjustments on the extensive margin. Adjustments on the extensive margin are …

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Total Factor Productivity of Korean Manufacturing Industries: Comparison of Competing Models with Firm-Level Data

Oh, Donghyun; Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009

This paper presents the parametric estimation of the rates of technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 7,462 Korean manufacturing firms for the period 1987 to 2007. Two alternative formulations of technical change measured by the time trend and the general index approaches...

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Productivity Spillovers of R&D in Sweden

Ejermo, Olof - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2004

Although Sweden is one of the most R&D-intensive OECD-countries, the importance of R&D spillovers in the country has not been systematically analyzed. This paper employs a cross-sectional dataset of 264 R&D-performing Swedish firms from 1996-97. With this set, knowledge production functions are...

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Credit constraints and the extensive margins of exports: First evidence for German manufacturing

Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

constraints and the extensive margins of exports in Germany, one of the leading actors on the international market for goods. In …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200202

Exporters, Spin-outs and Firm Performance

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2012

This paper analyzes the relationship between exporters, spin-outs and firm performance. A large body of research has shown that exporters perform better than non-exporters. But are also firms spawn out from exporters better than other new firms in terms of survival, productivity and growth?...

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A note on firm age and the margins of exports: First evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

margins of exports empirically for the first time for Germany. Results turn out to be fully in line with the theoretical …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010798195

Low-productive exporters are high-quality exporters. Evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2014

study reports that these low-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in … exports is much higher among exporters from the lower end of the productivity distribution than among highly productive …

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Credit constraints and exports: A survey of empirical studies using firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

Business managers are well aware of the fact that credit constraints can hamper or even prevent exporting. Economists only recently started to incorporate these arguments in theoretical models of heterogeneous firms and to test the implications of these models econometrically with firm-level...

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Learning and Productivity of Swedish Exporting Firms: The importance of Innovation Efforts and the Geography of Innovation

Lööf, Hans; Nabavi, Pardis - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

percent of total Swedish exports, but only 2 percent of the firms. From the regressions it is shown that, relative to a firm …

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Are low-productive exporters marginal exporters? Evidence from Germany

Wagner, Joachim - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2013

-productivity exporters are not marginal exporters defined according to the share of exports in total sales, or export participation over time …

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