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Exports and Firm Characteristics in German Manufacturing Industries
Wagner, Joachim - 2010
between firm characteristics and export activities, demonstrating the decisive role of human capital intensity for exporting …
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Why More West than East German Firms Export
Wagner, Joachim - 2021
difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317189
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Incidence of Strict Quality Standards : Protection of Consumers or Windfall for Professionals?
Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2013
This paper examines the effects of upgrading product quality standards on product and professional labor-market equilibriums when both markets are regulated. The Japanese government revised the Building Standards Act in June 2007, requiring a stricter review process for admitting the plans of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013080137
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Safeguarding Consumers Through Minimum Quality Standards : Milk Inspections and Urban Mortality, 1880-1910
Anderson, D. Mark; Charles, Kerwin Kofi; McKelligott, … - 2022
We examine the effect of enforcing minimum quality standards (MQSs) on consumer health. In the late 1800s, the urban milk supply was regularly skimmed and diluted with water, but consumers could not easily determine its quality because dyes, caramel, and salt were added. To protect consumers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083688
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Exports, Imports and Firm Survival : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises in Germany
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120841
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Exports, Imports and Profitability : First Evidence for Manufacturing Enterprises
Wagner, Joachim - 2011
This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123600
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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data
Girma, Sourafel - 2009
subsidies on export activities we find no impact of subsidies on the probability to start exporting, and only weak evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764168
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Ethnic Diversity and Firms' Export Behavior
Parrotta, Pierpaolo - 2014
Selling internationally requires products that resonate with an international customer base and therefore an approach to markets that is in keeping with diverse cultures (i.e., relational capital). As emphasized by international business studies, this relational capital is in turn related to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058748
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Exporting and Labor Demand : Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas - 2013
control for issues of self-selection and endogeneity in the firms' decisions to export by providing fixed effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013078822
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Help in a Foreign Land : Internationalized Banks and Firms' Export
Brancati, Emanuele - 2022
The lack of information is a relevant obstacle to the export activity of small and medium enterprises. This paper … analyzes whether banks can support firms’ export by reducing informational asymmetries about foreign markets. We exploit a … exogenous to firms’ export decisions by relying on preexisting lending relationships and exploiting the acquisition of a firm …
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