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exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with … 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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Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on …
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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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' export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … 1996-2007, we show that firms with higher export intensity exhibit a lower volatility of skilled labor demand relative to … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …
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Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over the last few decades has been urban-biased: structural change has been more pronounced in areas with higher population density. This bias can be accounted for by the location...
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Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...
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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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Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
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