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Imports and exports at the level of the firm: evidence from Belgium

Muuls, Mirabelle; Pisu, Mauro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. Focusing on manufacturing, we find that facts previously reported in the literature for exports only actually apply to imports …-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be …

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Does family control affect trade performance?: evidence for Italian firms

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...

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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics

Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....

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Internationalization and innovation of firms: evidence and policy

Altomonte, Carlo; Aquilante, Tommaso; Békés, Gábor; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We use a representative and cross-country comparable sample of manufacturing firms (EFIGE) to document patterns of interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom). We...

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Financing constraints, firm dynamics, export decisions, and aggregate productivity

Caggese, Andrea; Cuñat, Vicente - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We develop a dynamic industry model where ﬁnancing frictions aﬀect the entry decisions of new ﬁrms in the home market, as well as the riskiness of operating ﬁrms. These two factors in turn determine a joint endogenous distribution of ﬁrms across productivity, volatility and ﬁnancial...

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Cooperative environmental governance and waste-to-energy technologies in Asia

Forsyth, Tim - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

the Philippines and India, and especially the choice between the technologies of incineration, pyrolysis and …

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Tenancy in Palanpur

Tyagi, Ashish; Himanshu, Himanshu - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

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Credit in rural India: a case study

Dreze, Jean; Lanjouw, Peter; Sharma, Naresh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

studies of credit in rural India. …

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Investigating rationality in wage-setting

Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper investigates the efficiency wage hypothesis and derives a tractable expression for the profit loss incurred by deviations from the efficiency wage. The extent of the wage deviation can be inferred from production function parameters. The resulting profit loss shown to depend upon the...

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Minority representation and policy choices: the significance of legislator identity

Pande, Rohini - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999

an electoral law of political reservation will influence policies. The paper takes advantage of the existence of such a … law in India to test this prediction empirically. The principal finding is that minority representation has increased …

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