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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods, that...
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is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export …
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This paper investigates four cohorts of firms from German manufacturing industries that started to export in the years … between 1998 and 2002 and follows them over the five years after the start. Export starters are a rare species and they are … contributed by export starters of a cohort is tiny in the start year, and it remains so over the years to follow, although those …
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Heterogeneous firms are at the heart of both the New New International Trade Theory and the Micro-econometrics of International Firm Activities. One important aim of micro-econometric studies is to uncover stylized facts that hold over space and time, and that can both inspire theoretical models...
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-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports … share of outliers. Using a "clean" sample without outliers the estimated productivity premium of firms that export to the … Euro-zone only is no longer much smaller that the premium of firms that export beyond the Euro-zone, too, and the premium …
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The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what we learn from this literature to guide both future empirical and theoretical work in this area, and public debates and policy makers, in an evidence-based way. The focus is on...
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dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …, similar shares of plants gradually move up and down the export ladder and changes in plants' relative position in the …
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We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward" districts, on the performance of microenterprises. "Backward" districts were selected based on a transparent score-based assignment mechanism. Using a Fuzzy Regression Discontinuity...
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