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The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …
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line, then, is that R&D activity does matter for success of German business services firms on export markets – but not much. …
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-selection of innovative services firms on export markets. We have to admit, however, that the panel is too short, and that the … number of firms that start to export and start to perform R&D during the period under investigation is too small, for any …
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paper examines the links between firm-level export performance, foreign ownership, and the acquisition of technological …, human capital, technological capabilities, and geographical location are all positively associated with export shares …
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This paper studies factors associated with firm participation in export markets, focusing primarily on firm size and … interdependent relationships between export participation, firm size, and access to credit. SMEs participating in export markets tend … participation in export markets. The estimation results also point to the supportive influences of foreign ownership, worker …
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The Australia–United States free trade agreement (AUSFTA) came into effect in 2005. It was the second preferential trade agreement that Australia signed, after its agreement with Singapore, and marked a departure from the primacy of Australia’s previous trade policy of unilateral...
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The spread of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Southeast Asia has ignited a debate about their impact on business, and ways to avoid raising the business costs from the Asian ‘noodle bowl’ effect. This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of RTAs...
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The economic rise of Japan in the 1980s was underpinned by commitment to catching up through domestic reform and accommodated externally within the framework of the postwar multilateral institutions like the GATT/WTO. Regional cooperative processes like APEC later complemented that framework,...
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