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This study examines the marginal effects of traditional determinants of exports and imports with a focus on the role of price competitiveness in restoring external balances. It is a first attempt to compare marginal effects of various harmonised competitiveness indicators (HCIs) on both exports...
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international export performance at the firm level. To this end, we use Belgian firm-level data for the period 1999-2010 to analyze … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive … costs reduce the probability of starting to export for non-exporters and increase the probability of exporters stopping …
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and the second year of export is biased upwards because new exporters may start exporting late during the year. This … incomplete calendar year reduces export revenue by 32% on average for the first year of export. We then show that, controlling … for size, export experience is negatively related to net growth of exports for surviving exporters. Controlling for export …
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the performance of firms in export markets. Using a unique microeconomic database that combines data on Argentine firms …' characteristics and export performance with information on their domestic and external financing, we provide a rich insight into their … access to foreign financing export a wider variety of products and serve more distant and developed markets. We also study …
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export markets. To date, the analysis of demand factors has received much less attention. We propose a new model where …
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The paper proposes a theoretical framework for explaining gains and losses in export market shares by considering both …
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and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to …-exporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much more …
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This paper studies the importance of price and cost competitiveness for intra- and extra-euro area trade flows of euro area countries. A standard error correction framework shows that price competitiveness is a relatively more important driver of trade flows outside the euro area as compared to...
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Global Value Chains (GVCs) became the paradigm for the production of most goods and services around the world. Hence, interconnections among countries can no longer be adequately assessed through standard bilateral gross trade flows and new methods of analysis are needed. In this paper, we...
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output volatility. In this vein, our paper investigates whether exporting and export diversification at the firm level have … large negative shocks in export markets. In contrast to the literature and empirical findings for large or advanced … countries we do not find a statistically significant and consistent mitigating effect from export diversification in the Central …
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