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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 examines inter-country variations and growing volume of Intra-industry trade for thirty rapidly industrializing Asian and Latin American countries in the 1990s. With rapid industrialisation, intra-industry trade in manufactured products have increased substantially. We find that...
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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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A new method for measuring trade potential from border effects is developed and applied to manufactured trade between the old fifteen European Union (EU) members and twelve Central and East European (CEE) economies. Border effects are estimated with three theoretically compatible trade...
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successful entry and operation in the export markets using duration analysis. Rich longitudinal microlevel data on Finnish … first part of the analysis, we focus on the factors that explain the duration of time until entering plants start to export …. The second part of the study concentrates on the duration of time until exit from the export markets. Our special focus is …
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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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against import competition to an offensive strategy that enables Tunisian exporters to take part and benefit from dynamically … evolving global markets. Indeed, strengthening Tunisia’s export performance is a major challenge and requires attention to the …
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