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Exports and Credit Constraints under Incomplete Information: Theory and Evidence from China
Feenstra, Robert C.; Li, Zhiyuan; Yu, Miaojie - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 96 (2014) 3, pp. 729-744
production. The longer time needed for export shipments induces a tighter credit constraint on exporters than on purely domestic … firms. In our application to Chinese firms, we find that the credit constraint is more stringent as a firm's export share …
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Offshoring and Volatility: Evidence from Mexico's Maquiladora Industry
Bergin, Paul R.; Feenstra, Robert C.; Hanson, Gordon H. - In: American Economic Review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1664-71
This paper studies the second-moment properties of offshoring, the arrangement whereby firms carry out particular stages of production abroad. It documents a new empirical regularity: maquiladora industries in Mexico that are associated with US offshoring experience fluctuations in employment...
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Self-Enforcing Trade Agreements: Evidence from Time-Varying Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 2, pp. 1071-90
, (ii) increase with the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticities, and (iii) decrease with the … increase in import growth, the inverse of the sum of the import demand and export supply elasticity, and the standard deviation …
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Aggregation Bias in the Factor Content of Trade: Evidence from U.S. Manufacturing
Hanson, Gordon H.; Feenstra, Robert C. - In: American Economic Review 90 (2000) 2, pp. 155-160
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