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in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. We subject this theoretical prediction to a … reality check drawing upon the World Banks Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 developing … countries to all destinations. We find that around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is along the …
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data on the universe of French firm-level exports and imports over 1993-2020. Granularity matters for the micro-dynamics of … aggregate French exports over the long run : the granular residual explains 42% of the variance in aggregate export growth … exporters contributed to the export collapses disproportionably more than their pre-crisis share of exports, even within finely …
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1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 firm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate … substantial taste heterogeneity in food exports across destination countries. Overall, in the large majority of food exports …
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This paper studies the effect of regional trade agreements on firms' exports. Using detailed information on the content … of trade agreements and firm-level exports for 31 developing countries between 2000 and 2020, the analysis shows that the … firms' exports, on average, by 3.6 percent. In line with models of trade with heterogeneous firms and mark-ups, the trade …
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This paper estimates worker and firm impacts of foreign shocks, and the income support provided by assistance programs. It exploits quasi-experimental variation in firms' foreign demand resulting from the global financial crisis, using employer-employee data for Brazil in 2004-2017, linked with...
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to higher delinquencies and interest rates, while exports are unaffected. Natural and financial hedging successfully mute … switching channel. Pricing exports in the dominant vs. producer currency mutes the effect of DCF on trade. …
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This article shows how to use the publicy-available firm-level surveys produced by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) to reproduce the stylized facts that characterize firm heterogeneity and its relationship with global engagement, as established by Bernard et al. (2007) for manufacturing...
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This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the 2000-2006 period....
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Using firm-level data for the UK, we investigate the link between firms' financial health, borrowing ratio and export exit, paying special attention to the recent financial crisis. Our results show that deterioration in the financial position of firms has increased the hazard of export exit...
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This paper explores how a minimum wage affects a firm's behavior with a competitive labor market and an uncertain export cost. The model provides several novel insights which are consistent with recent empirical evidence. Thus, a minimum wage increases an exporter's foreign-market size and may...
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