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differentiated goods. Allowing differentiated-good firms to export creates an additional channel through which a reduction in the …
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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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impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …
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This paper explores firms' export dynamics in emerging economies where local firms face stiff foreign competition, both … at home and abroad, and thus compelled to choose the level of quality in which to export. We develop and test a model of … vertical product differentiation where the link between export performance and product quality is central. The impact of other …
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productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …, namely, that export opportunities increase firm heterogeneity by fostering innovation …
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Firms adjust to differences in market size and demand uncertainty by changing the frequency and size of their export … well as inventory and per shipments costs. Using a cross section of monthly firm-product-destination level French export … uncertainty by reducing their sales and, for a given export volume, by reducing their number of shipments and increasing their …
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productivity in determining export decisions is weaker for firms with higher productivity. Finally, both larger fixed export costs …This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export … behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them …
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neighbors currently selling there, the level and heterogeneity of their export sales, and the firm's own prior knowledge about … the market. A positive signal about demand inferred from neighbors' export performance raises the firm's probability of … entry and initial sales in the market, but lowers post-entry growth, conditional on survival. These learning effects are …
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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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An astonishing 33% of all firm-product-destination export spells in Danish data turn out to be isolated single …-month one-off export events (observed once in a 49 month window). On average, for an export-active firm, such one-off exports … passive (i.e., buyer-side driven) one-off exporting in addition to the customary proactive export channel. This framework …
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