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This paper analyses the relationship between exports, innovative activities and size and their effect over firms’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect productivity as industrial sector, or firms’...
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In this study, I analyze the characteristics of trading firms in the Spanish service sector. I reveal that half of the service firms in Spain operate only in their local markets, whereas one-third of the examined service firms trade with non-local areas of Spain, and fewer than 20% of Spanish...
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This paper documents the variation in economic characteristics across voyages during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Dispersion in output, measured as slaves disembarked, is highest across Portuguese voyages, lower across French voyages, and lowest across British voyages. We use a structural...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between export status and productivity in a major service exporter, Spain, during …. The results show that exporters were more productive than non-exporters before beginning to export. The results also show …
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This paper argues that institutional quality has both direct and indirect (moderating) effects on productivity of countries. These hypotheses are tested using a battery of institutional proxies (governance, economic freedom, intellectual property rights and ease of doing business) and two...
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This paper investigates the causes of Turkish export-boom after 2000 in the manufacturing sector. We mainly concentrate … is examined for the rising and declining sectors. We find that manufacturing export is negatively related to the unit … export while an increase in nominal wages decreases it. We also find that nominal wage is an important factor in the …
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, lowering their likelihood to export. We also find that the reallocative impacts of trade come not only from tariff barriers but …
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exit, and also by limiting the expansion of efficient plants, lowering their likelihood to export. Second, the reallocative …
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particular, we find that the exit of inefficient plants due to stronger import competition is very prominent in light industries … contrast, we find no significant effects of import competition on the exit of plants in heavy industries. The result has …
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entry to export markets, firms begin exporting if productivity exceeds a certain threshold value. Productivity is thus a … crucial factor behind firms' export market participation. To verify this, I estimate a simple probit model of the firms … decision to export, based on the Polish manufacturing firm-level data. Estimation of productivity of individual firms is …
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