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respect to local productivity shocks are significantly higher with a lower housing share. Moreover, simple ex-ante observable …
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evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …
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understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …
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improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
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We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the complexity, the organization, and the global scale of its production process. Specifically, it decides: i) on the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are part of the value...
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-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the …
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firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate productivity. Since wage and productivity responses are endogenous …, our model is well suited to study the impacts of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
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assessment of 51 empirical studies on exports and firm characteristics that use data for German establishments or enterprises … quality data for a large representative panel of enterprises from German manufacturing industries to investigate the links … heterogeneous firms that emphasises the role of productivity for exporting. It shows that productivity is important for exporting as …
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This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …
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activities – exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …
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