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different firm types in China. Based on our reconciled data sets for 2007 and 2010, we find that both state-owned enterprises … (SOE) and small and medium enterprises (SME) in China have much higher value-added exports (VAX) to gross exports ratios …, compared to the rest of the economy. While the VAX ratio of China's aggregate exports increased by about 9% between 2007 and …
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estimate direct and indirect domestic value added in exports of different types of firm. We find that in China, both state … downstream within industries. These findings suggest that SOEs still play an important role in shaping China's exports. …
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proposed, and is shown to be robust to the choice of the underlying distribution. Using Monte Carlo techniques, the proposed …
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supply chains - and how this decision affects performance. We exploit matched customs and balance-sheet data from China …
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The amount of CO2 embedded in trade has substantially increased over the last decades. We study the trends and some drivers of the carbon content of trade over the period 1995-2009. Our main findings are the following. First, the mix of traded goods tends to have higher emission intensity than...
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intensive margin, contradicting the benchmark Melitz-Pareto model. We find that moving from a Pareto to a lognormal distribution … estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm productivity, fixed costs and demand shifters …
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Measured by trade in intermediate inputs, economic integration has increased between 2000 and 2014 between members of the European Union and even more with non-members. Integration is negatively related to economic size and positively to the number of years as a member. Germany is the largest...
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With the availability of international value added trade data it has become evident that gross export data and value added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade policy, value added data tell us what fragment in the...
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Recent contributions on offshoring often assume that firms can freely split their production process into separate steps which can be ranked according to the cost savings from producing abroad. We replace this assumption by the notion of a technologically determined sequence of production steps....
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Employees of globalized firms face a riskier menu of labor market outcomes. They face a more uncertain stream of earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills and/or may benefit from more rapid careers. Hence, the...
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