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This paper is an attempt to assess the existence and magnitude of local research spillovers in France. We rely on the …
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We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … competition from demand shocks in export markets – and the induced product mix reallocations – induce productivity changes within …
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I assess the magnitude of human capital spillovers in US cities by estimating plant-level production functions. I use a unique firm worker matched dataset, obtained by combining the Census of Manufacturers with the Census of Population. After controlling for a plant's own human capital, plant...
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U.S. manufacturing firms that make sophisticated weapons systems for the Pentagon are subject to an unusual regulatory regime that obligates them to volunteer' information on their business practices to the government and to prime contractors as a condition of their special relationship with the...
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Are there productivity spillovers from FDI to domestic firms, and, if so, how much should host countries be willing to pay to attract FDI? To examine these questions we use a plant-level panel covering U.K. manufacturing from 1973 through 1992. Across a wide range of specifications, we estimate...
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This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills …
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export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …
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detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export …
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Exporting firms often enter foreign markets that are similar to previous export destinations. We develop a dynamic … to its previous export destinations (extended gravity). Given the large number of export paths from which forward …, we estimate that having similarities with a prior export destination in geographic location, language, and income per …
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explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
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