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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 … the impact of unit labor costs on exports. We use exports adjusted for their import content. We find a statistically … significant negative effect of unit labor costs on export performance of firms with an estimated elasticity of the intensive …
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Increasing fragmentation of production across borders is changing the nature of international competition. As a result, conventional indicators of competitiveness based on gross exports become less informative and new measures are needed. In this paper we propose an ex-post accounting framework...
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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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from China have strongly affected export performance since the early 2000s. In the case of old EU Member States, investment … underlying export growth are receiving great attention, as countries struggle to grow out of the crisis by increasing exports and … investigate the drivers of export market shares of 25 EU countries, considering a wide range of traditional indicators along with …
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There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the … be justified by its relatively low average prices, implying that the quality of Chinese export products is relatively …
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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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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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measures that can be used to analyse comparative advantage and price competitiveness, called relative export density and export … - where they have a price advantage. Price (dis)assortativity turns out to be an important factor for export growth, even … catching-up CESEE countries, with potential implications for industrial policy. The relationship between the two export …
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There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China … imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China’s export structure is very similar to that of the … be justified by its relatively low average prices, implying that the quality of Chinese export products is relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605356
In this paper we investigate how income growth rates in one country are affected by growth rates in partner countries, testing for the importance of pairwise country links as well as characteristics of the receiving country (trade and financial openness, exchange rate regime, fiscal variables)....
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