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Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …
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theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …
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I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports or local sales from an affiliated plant. When contracts between two agents within a firm are too costly to write, the share of multinational firms may be higher or lower...
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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differ from those in an export-only model. Calibrating our model to rich firm-level data from France and Norway, our main …
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Germany's export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study …-shoring). An export model is estimated covering the period 1993-2005. The dominant factor explaining the increase in market share … are trade relationships with fast growing countries. Regionalized production in the export sector also played a part …
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this theoretical and empirical puzzle by diagnosing a "pathological export boom" and a "bazaar effect". Excessively high … fraction of the labour intensive sectors and drive too much capital and labour into the capital intensive export sectors … upstream production activities which implies that export quantities grow too much in relation to value added contained in …
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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity …. Both modes of innovation are expected to raise a firm's propensity to export. According to new trade theory, we conjecture … innovations and their impact on export propensity at the firm level through a double treatment approach …
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has a stronger effect on volatility than a similar change in firms' export intensity. We also uncover evidence consistent …
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Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
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