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Information frictions, investment promotion, and multinational production : firm-level evidence
Carballo, Jerónimo; Marra de Artiñano, Ignacio; Volpe … - 2021
While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms' foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica's investment...
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A touch of sophistication : FDI and unit values of exports
Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata K. Smarzynska - 2009
The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922581
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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US
Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018
We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864551
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor productivity, size, etc., we find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772816
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Global sourcing decisions and firm productivity : evidence from Spain
Kohler, Wilhelm; Smolka, Marcel - 2009
We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we … productivity premia associated with the different sourcing strategies. We find strong empirical support for the predictions of the … model. -- productivity ; outsourcing ; intra-firm trade ; foreign direct investment ; incomplete contracts ; firm-level data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923683
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020
firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270354
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Contagious exporting and foreign ownership : evidence from firms in Shanghai using a Bayesian spatial bivariate probit model
Baltagi, Badi H.; Egger, Peter; Kesina, Michaela - 2018
Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on whether the fixed costs associated with doing so are at least covered by the incremental operating profits. This paper provides evidence that success for some firms in attracting...
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Cultural distance, firm boundaries, and global sourcing
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Kukharskyy, Bohdan; Roland, Gérard - 2023
higher firm's productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014313474
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Determinants of global value chain participation : cross-country evidence
Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Kee, Hiau Looi; Winkler, Deborah - 2020
The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries, many in the Africa region, faltered. This paper studies the determinants of participation in global value...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012213059
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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China
Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014
evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391833