minimum wages and productivity on firms' exports. It shows that the influence of minimum wages on firms' exporting probability … and foreign sales is negative while that of firms' productivity on their exports is positive. Econometric analysis based … 2007 verifies these predictions. Holding the other variables constant, if minimum wages and their productivity increase by …

The paper tests the role of agglomeration effects on the export decision of services firms. Recent theories on trade … with heterogeneous firms predict that export participation goes along with sunk market-entry costs. Only the more …-city areas. Standard empirical tests of the new trade models consistently find productivity-based ex ante self selection by …

aggressive export policies of Northern Europe via their low wage policies. (6b) Given the similarity of the tax policies in the …

, productivity differential and fiscal balance to gross domestic product differential are significant determinants of the real …

: BEER (Behavioral Equilibrium Exchange Rate) which explains the deviations from PPP as a result of changes in the …

the economic integration of China’s export to the US and its import from Asian nations using monthly aggregate data from … December 2005 to July 2010. This study observed that empirically China’s export to the US depends on exchange rate and China …’s import from Asia depends on China’s export to the US. China has double role in international trade – (i) China acts as an …