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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference …
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in their expectations that the Euro will increase export activity and product innovation, but significantly more East … entering new markets and developing new products is stronger for firms which already export than for those who do not. Further …
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-specific characteristics such as size, productivity, human capital, experience on the national market in Germany, etc. on the firms' export …The determinants of export behaviour at firm level have been widely investigated for manufacturing companies. By …, international trade in services has grown significantly over the last few years. However, it is unclear why some companies export …
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The answer to competition from emerging countries with low wage costs must be very different according to the affected sector. We need to draw a distinction between manufacturing industry and services that can be relocated and other sectors: consumer services, retail, construction, most business...
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How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We … address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and … by the extensive margin. Third, the above effects are not exclusive to industries directly exposed to export shocks but …
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This paper deals with the impact of the $/¿ exchange rate on German exports in the period from 1995Q1 to 2008Q4. Our main aim is to identify pain thresholds for German exporters. We rely on a non-linear model according to which suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the EXR go...
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. This proposition is confirmed by an empirical investigation of export demand for manufactured goods from major …
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