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Access to Finance and Exporting Behavior in Transition Countries
Bernard, Alex; Stabilito, Augusto; Yoo, Julien Donghoon - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We analyze the link between firms’ access to finance and their decisions to enter and exit the export market. We employ the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted in 2005 and 2008-2009 to 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that more...
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Exit from exporting: Does being a two-way trader matter?
Díaz-Mora, Carmen; Córcoles, David; Gandoy, Rosario - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether the probability of ceasing to export is lower for firms that simultaneously import intermediate inputs and export (vertically specialized firms à la Hummels et al., The Nature and Growth of Vertical Specialization in World Trade, 2001), once other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011203161
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Vertical Integration and Supplier Finance
Kersting, Erasmus; Görg, Holger - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We investigate the financial implications of a multinational firm’s choice between outsourcing and integration from the perspective of the supplier. Using a simple model, we explore the extent to which an integrated supplier’s access to finance, as well as its sources of funding, change...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886973
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Scope for Export-Led Growth in a Large Emerging Economy: Is India Learning by Exporting?
Tabrizy, Saleh S.; Trofimenko, Natalia - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
The ongoing debate of the literature on learning-by-exporting is whether the conspicuously stellar performance of exporters relative to non-exporters can be, at least partially, attributed to the horizonwidening interaction with foreign consumers and learning of cost-efficient and quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568560
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Sectoral R&D Intensity and Exchange Rate Volatility: A Panel Study for OECD Countries
Mahagaonkar, Prashanth; Schweickert, Rainer; Chavali, … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
A recent literature has pointed at potential negative effects of exchange rate volatility on innovation. In this paper, we propose that there may be a direct effect as well as an indirect effect via export activity. We test these hypotheses for sectoral R&D intensities using OECD panel data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079107
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Services Outsourcing and Innovation: An empirical investigation
Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
We provide a comprehensive empirical analysis of the links between international services outsourcing, domestic outsourcing, profits and innovation using plant level data. We find a positive effect of international outsourcing of services on innovative activity at the plant level. Such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700629
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The granular nature of the great export collapse in German manufacturing industries, 2008/2009
Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010956149
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Imported inputs and Egyptian exports: Exploring the links
Parra, María Dolores; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
. Secondly, the authors estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic … imports than for exports pointing to the existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect … the extensive margin of imports, but not of exports and the initial condition status is also only relevant for the import …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269109
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Exports under the Flicker of the Northern Lights
Kristjánsdóttir, Helga - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008
important are these trading blocs to the country's exports? How important is the country's location and size, and how do these …. This suggests that the exports from small remote economies are driven by different factors than exports from large conomies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059041
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Credit constraints and the extensive margins of exports: First evidence for German manufacturing
Wagner, Joachim - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 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/10011203165