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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas - 2019
broad support for the model's predictions. First, better managed firms are more likely to export, sell more products to more … destination countries, and earn higher export revenues and profits. Second, better managed exporters have higher prices, higher …
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Chinese Experience with Global 3G Standard-Setting
Whalley, John - 2009
China's growth strategy as set out in the 11th 5-year plan in 2005 called for upgrading of product quality, the development of an innovation society, and reduced reliance on foreign intellectual property with high license fees. Consistent with this policy, China has been involved in recent years...
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Who Should Pay for Certification?
Stahl, Konrad O.; Strausz, Roland - 2021
Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...
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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence
Geishecker, Ingo - 2014
Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....
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Unraveling Firms : Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity
Forlani, Emanuele - 2016
key firm-level outcomes: export status and size …
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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse
Chen, Natalie - 2015
We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...
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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices : Theory and Evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C; Li, Yao Amber - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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Decomposing China's Export Growth into Extensive Margin, Export Quality and Quantity Effects
Gao, Yue; Whalley, John; Ren, Yonglei - 2021
This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …
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Firm Export Survival : Micro-Evidence from the Philippines
Pelkmans-Balaoing, Annette O. - 2017
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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Betting on Exports : Trade and Endogenous Heterogeneity
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - 2015
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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