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Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms …
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Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel method to estimate treaty-utilization costs. We later apply the model to estimate the evolution...
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There exists a growing body of literature which looks at export decisions made by firms. Most studies focus on … aims at filling this gap in the literature by analyzing the export behavior of a statistically representative sample of 192 … higher probability of exporting. Training activities for employees are important to export outside of MERCOSUR. -- SME …
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While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … to new clients. We show that small firms with a lot of outstanding trade credit expand sales the most following export … export market entry. …
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manufacturer's demand of credit, which we use to address the reverse causality between a manufacturer's export revenue and its … demand for credit. We find that access to credit produces a significant increase on a manufacturer's export revenue explained … effect of credit on a manufacturer's export revenue varies by size. While medium sized manufacturers use credit to increase …
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In this paper we analyze changes in the export mix of Chilean firms, looking particularly at differences between large … econometric results, which look at the impact of export product churning on firm performance, are heterogeneous by type of change … in export mix and by firm size. In general, export mix changes are associated with improvements on productivity, although …
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Our knowledge of the trade effects of domestic infrastructure is very limited. The reason is twofold. First, data needed to examine these effects are not readily available. Second, identifying such effects requires properly addressing potential endogeneity problems affecting the relationship...
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In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and … learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that consists of the entire universe of Peru's export transactions over the … period 1999-2014 including both regular shipments and postal shipments. We find that the new export mode has been associated …
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This paper studies firms' decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows …
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