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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival
Persson, Maria; Gullstrand, Joakim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
different, depending on whether the export decision refers to a core or a peripheral market, it is plausible that while firms …. <p> Second, using firm-product-destination-specific export data for all firms in the Swedish food chain for the period … is found that firms will indeed tend to stay longer in their core markets, while export decisions regarding peripheral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019051
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Liberalized Trade and Worker-Firm Matching
Davidson, Carl; Heyman, Fredrik; Matusz, Steven; … - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010542070
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The Dynamics of Offshoring and Institutions
Heyman, Fredrik; Gustavsson Tingvall, Patrik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
Previous research has recognized that weak institutions can hamper investments and alter patterns of trade. However, little is known about the impact of institutional quality on offshoring. This is surprising, given that offshoring has become an important part of many firms’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555254
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Institution-Driven Comparative Advantage, Complex Goods and Organizational Choice
Ferguson, Shon; Formai, Sara - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
contracts on the comparative advantage of complex goods. We also find that countries with good financial institutions export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251249
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Exploring the Long-Term Evolution of Trade Survival
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports to individual EU15 countries from 140 non-EU exporters, covering the period 1962–2006. We find that short duration is a persistent characteristic of trade throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283229
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A Heckscher-Ohlin View of Sweden Competing in the Global Marketplace.
Leamer, E.E.; Lundborg, P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1995
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Exploring the Duration of EU Imports
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
with a diversified export structure also will tend to have more long-lived export flows. In our formal regression, we are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548990
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The Duration of Trade Revisited: Continuous-Time vs. Discrete-Time Hazards
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010
The recent literature on the duration of trade has predominantly analyzed the determinants of trade flow durations using Cox proportional hazards models. The purpose of this paper is to show why it is inappropriate to analyze the duration of trade with continuous-time models such as the Cox...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008470233
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Exporting Consultancy Services in the Infrastructure Sectors: The Determinants of Obtaining Assignments
Svensson, Roger - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
A unique database on individual tender documents is used to analyze the relationship between strategical factors and outcomes when technical consultancy firms (TCFs) compete for foreign assignments in the infrastructure sectors. TCFs, which sell services based on human capital, have a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190623
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Bottled Water - A Case of Pointless Trade?
Friberg, Richard; Ganslandt, Mattias - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2003
Two-way trade in (almost) homogenous products has ambiguous welfare effects if entry is restricted. We examine Swedish imports of bottled water to investigate whether transport cost losses from trade outweigh the partial equilibrium gains from trade (stronger competition and more brands to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645304