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Trade and Wage Inequality in Developing Countries: South-South Trade Matter

Gourdon, Julien - HAL - 2011

The relationship between trade liberalization and inequality has received considerable attention in recent years. The primary purpose of this paper is to present new results on the sources of wage inequalities in manufacturing taking into account South-South (S-S) trade. Globalization not only...

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Should Employment Authorities Worry About Mergers and Acquisitions?

Margolis, David - HAL - 2006

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions on employment. First, it considers the importance of different aspects of compensation policy and human resource management practices for distinguishing acquired and acquiring firms. Second, it examines which individuals from which firms...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750965

Export Behaviour and Propensity to Innovate in a Developing Country: The Case of Tunisia

Rahmouni, Mohieddine; Yildizoglu, Murat; Ayadi, Mohamed - HAL - 2011

The relation between export behaviour and the propensity to innovate is an important question for a developing economy. This article dedicated to this question through the analysis of the first innovation survey of Tunisian firms. We analyze the relationship between the export behaviour and the...

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Do Overseas investments create or replace trade? New insights from a macro-sectoral study on Japan

Chiappini, Raphaël - HAL - 2013

This paper investigates the relationship between outward foreign direct investment (FDI) and both exports and imports … between FDI and exports is overestimated when using the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimator. The PPML method also allows … overseas investments substitute for exports in chemicals products and for both exports and imports in general machinery. …

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How Do Banking Crises Affect Bilateral Exports?

KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf - HAL - 2013

This paper investigates whether banking crises are associated with declines in bilateral exports. We first develop a … simple open economy model in which banking crises translate into negative liquidity shocks, leading to collapses in exports … countries over the period 1988-2010. The results suggest that crisis-hit countries experience lower levels of bilateral exports …

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Financial Factors and Manufacturing Exports:Theory and Firm-level Evidence From Egypt

KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf; Minea, Alexandru - HAL - 2013

This paper focuses on the effects of financial factors on manufacturing firms' export participation. Using a simple dynamic discrete choice model, we first present the intuition according to which financial constraints reduce the probability of exporting. Then, based on a panel of Egyptian...

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Export performance and product market regulation

Amable, Bruno; Ledezma, Ivan - HAL - 2013

This paper analyses the impact of product market regulation on the propensity to export at the industry level for 13 OECD countries and 13 industries over the 1977-2007 period. Recent economic policy and academic literature insists on the negative effects of product market regulation on...

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Exchange Rate Volatility, Financial Constraints and Trade: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Firms

Poncet, Sandra; Héricourt, Jérôme - HAL - 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 than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the 2000-2006 period....

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Export Activity and Productivity: New Evidence from the Egyptian Manufacturing Industry

KIENDREBEOGO, Youssouf - HAL - 2014

This study explores the relationship between exports and productivity using a panel dataset of Egyptian manufacturing …

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Destabilization Effect of International Trade in a Perfect Foresight Dynamic General Equilibrium Model

Nishimura, Kazuo; Venditti, Alain; Yano, Makoto - HAL - 2013

In the present paper, we consider a two-country, two-good, two-factor general equilibrium model with CIES non-linear preferences, asymmetric technologies across countries and decreasing returns to scale. It is shown that aggregate instability and endogenous fluctuations may occur due to...

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