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Self-Selection into Export Markets byBusiness Services Firms: Evidence fromFrance, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firmsthat (start to) export … and productivity hold in the yearsbefore the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360584
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Self-Selection into export markets by business services firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2010
This study reports results from an empirical investigation of business services sector firms that (start to) export … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more … relationship between profitability and starting to export is found. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274711
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Higher productivity in importing German manufacturing firms: self-selection, learning from importing, or both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269066
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Exports and profitability: first evidence for German manufacturing firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - 2008
-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269330
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840238
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Regional Trade Agreements and Enterprises in Southeast Asia
Wignaraja, Ganeshan - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2013
This paper undertakes a comparative and firm-level analysis of the impact of regional trade agreements (RTAs) in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. It finds that firm-heterogeneity matters in RTA use. Acquiring knowledge about RTAs, building technological capabilities, and membership of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840244
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Does Finance Really Matter for the Participation of SMEs in International Trade? Evidence from 8,080 East Asian Firms
Jinjarak, Yothin; Mutuc, Paulo Jose; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010901625
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Higher Productivity in Importing German Manufacturing Firms: Self-Selection, Learning from Importing, or Both?
Vogel, Alexander; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-way traders do have the highest premia, followed by firms that only export, while firms that only import have the smallest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822289
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm’s export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … score (GPS) methodology that allows for continuous treatment, that is, different levels of the firms’ export activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822920
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Exports and Profitability: First Evidence for German Manufacturing Firms
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
-selection of more profitable firms into export markets. Due to the sampling frame of the data used we cannot test the hypothesis … the whole range of the export-sales ratio. Only firms that generate 90 percent and more of their total sales abroad do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763866