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The influence of value-chain governance on innovation performance: a study of Italian suppliers
Brancati, Emanuele; Pietrobelli, Carlo; Mazzi, Caio Torres - 2021
are also reflected in export performances and sales of innovative products. Our results go partially against other …
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Help in a foreign land : internationalized banks and firms' export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms' export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms' export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
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Exports, foreign direct investments and productivity : are services firms different?
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. -- exports ; foreign direct investments …
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Isolating the network effect of immigrants on trade
Aleksynska, Mariya; Peri, Giovanni - 2012
those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating …
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Foreign competition and domestic innovation : evidence from U.S. patents
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2019
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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How do immigrants promote exports? : networks, knowledge, diversity.
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
How do immigrants promote exports? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework allowing to identify and disentangle the main mechanisms put forth in the literature: the role of networks in reducing bilateral transaction costs, and the productivity shifts arising from...
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Comparing real wage rates
Ashenfelter, Orley - 2012
A real wage rate is a nominal wage rate divided by the price of a good and is a transparent measure of how much of the good an hour of work buys. It provides an important indicator of the living standards of workers, and also of the productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual...
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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The natural resource boom and the uneven fall of the labor share
Dávila, Andrés O.; Fernández, Manuel; Zuleta, Hernando - 2021
We study the effect of the upsurge of natural resources income from the commodity price boom of the 2000s on the functional distribution of income. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model of Dutch disease that characterizes how natural resource windfalls affect equilibrium factor shares....
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FDI and wages : evidence from firm-level and linked employer-employee data in Hungary, 1986 - 2008
Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos; Antal, Gábor - 2012
We estimate the wage effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) with universal firm-level and linked employer-employee panel data containing 4,926 foreign acquisitions in Hungary. Matching on pre-acquisition data and controlling for fixed effects for firms and detailed worker groups, we find...
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