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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains : It's in the Measure
Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2013
to identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. Previous research typically derived revenue productivity (TFPR … plants, we compute plant-product level marginal cost as an efficiency measure that is not affected by output prices. For … export entrant products, we find efficiency gains of 15-25%. Because markups remain relatively stable after export entry …
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Policies To Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico
Arias, Javier - 2010
stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of its workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the …
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Is "Learning-by-Exporting" Important? Micro-Dynamic Evidence from Colombia, Mexico and Morocco
Clerides, Sofronis - 1996
costs are not affected by previous export market participation. So the well-known efficiency gap between exporters and non …
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Does "Grease Money" Speed Up the Wheels of Commerce?
Kaufmann, Daniel - 1999
economic efficiency and that fighting bribery would be counter-productive. This need not be the case. In a general equilibrium …
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On the Measure of Distortions
Hopenhayn, Hugo A. - 2014
Abstract The paper considers formally the mapping from distortions in the allocations of resources across firms to aggregate productivity. TFP gaps are characterized as the integral of a strictly concave function with respect to an employment-weighted measure of distortions. Size related...
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Moving to Greener Pastures? Multinationals and the Pollution Haven Hypothesis
Eskeland, Gunnar A. - 2002
This paper presents evidence on whether multinationals are flocking to developing country 'pollution havens'. Although we find some evidence that foreign investors locate in sectors with high levels of air pollution, the evidence is weak at best. We then examine whether foreign firms pollute...
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Spillovers, Foreign Investment, and Export Behavior
Aitken, Brian - 1994
Case studies of export behavior suggest that firms who penetrate foreign markets reduce entry costs for other potential exporters, either through learning by doing or through establishing buyer- supplier linkages. We pursue the idea that spillovers associated with one firm's export activity...
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Host Country Competition and Technology Transfer by Multinationals
Blomstrom, Magnus - 1992
This paper examines whether rivalry in host country markets may force multinational films to increase the technology transfer to their foreign affiliates. Such technology flows should be interesting from the perspective of the host country and its firms, since they would increase the potential...
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Multinational Corporations and Productivity Convergence in Mexico
Blomstrom, Magnus - 1989
levels of locally-owned firms in Mexico have converged to those of foreign-owned firms. Second, both the rate of productivity … ownership of an industry. Third, the productivity gap between Mexico and U.S. manufacturing has diminished between the mid-1960s …
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To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex - 2010
Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidize the price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a new survey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerable variation in joining among...
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