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Can SME Policies Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina

Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Monsalvo, Ana P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper evaluates the impact of the Argentine SME support program PRE on employment, real wages, and exports. The … and quantitatively important impact of the program on employment and a positive although smaller impact on real wages and … place one year after beneficiaries receive the program. The effect of the program on employment takes place one, two, and …

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Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm-Level Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin? Empirical evidence in this respect is scarce. We aim at filling this gap in the literature by...

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Public Programs to Promote Firms' Exports in Developing Countries: Are There Heterogeneous Effects by Size Categories?

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Several countries have implemented programs to support their firms¿ internationalization efforts. Their impacts are likely to be heterogeneous over firm size categories because these programs are primarily intended and expected to benefit smaller companies. Whether this is or not the case is...

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Export Promotion: Heterogeneous Programs and Heterogeneous Effects

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Export promotion agencies provide exporters with a broad range of services, going from counseling to sponsoring their participation in international trade missions and fairs. These services may have heterogeneous effects and thus contribute differently to achieve the goals of these...

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Beyond The Average Effects: The Distributional Impacts of Export Promotion Programs in Developing Countries

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Do all exporters benefit the same from export promotion programs? Surprisingly, not matter how obvious this question may a priori be when thinking of the effectiveness of these programs there is virtually no empirical evidence on how they affect export performance in different parts of the...

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Export Promotion Activities in Developing Countries: What kind of Trade Do They Promote?

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Information problems involved in trading differentiated goods are a priori acuter than those associated with trading more homogeneous products. The impact of export promotion activities intending to address these problems can be therefore expected to differ across goods with different degree of...

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Second-tier Government Banks and Firm Performance: Micro-Evidence from Colombia

Eslava, Marcela; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Despite the large potential gains from credit by second-tier development banks, little is known about the actual impact of these banks' lending activity. This study partially fills that gap by analyzing the impact of the lending activity of Bancoldex, the Colombian second-tier development bank,...

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Entering New Country and Product Markets: Does Export Promotion Help?

Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

Entering new export markets is primarily a discrete choice. Even though several empirical papers have used modeling strategies consistent with this fact, no study has examined the effects of public policies aimed at affecting this decision within this setting. In this paper we assess the impact...

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Assessing the Impact of Cluster Policies: the case of the Arranjos Productivos Locais in Brazil

Maffioli, Alessandro; Garone, Lucas Figal; Rodriguez, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

, including level of employment, value of exports and likelihood of exporting. The cluster policy is found to generate a positive …

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Partial Credit Guarantees and Firm Performance: Evidence from the Colombian National Guarantee Fund

Arráiz, Irani; Melendez, Marcela; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

by the NGF are able to grow in terms of both output and employment. However, we did not find any effect on productivity …

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