A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … export market. The investment decisions depend on the expected future profitability and the fixed and sunk costs incurred … dominant channel driving participation in the export market and R&D investment. Both R&D and exporting have a positive direct …

Taiwanese electronics industry: participation in the export market and investments in R&D and/or worker training. We focus on …. The firm's decisions to export and invest in R&D and/or worker training are modeled with a bivariate probit model that …. The primary empirical findings are that, on average, firms that export but do not invest in R&D and/or worker training …

The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less … the domestic and export market. Cohorts of new firms have lower average productivity than incumbents but are also a … the export market, are more productive than nonexporters. These patterns are consistent with the view that both the …

Taiwan was perhaps the first developing country to adopt an export-oriented trade strategy after World War II. The …. In 1954, economist S. C. Tsiang proposed that Taiwan boost export earnings rather than squeeze import spending to deal …, lobbying by export interests, pressure from international financial institutions--were not present; it was ideas that were key …

use to the loss in farm income brought about by natural disasters in Taiwan. To account for endogenous exposure to …

compare the estimates with those obtained using data for Taiwan and find the results to be robust. We perform counterfactuals …

largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … coverage and online content. Because Taiwan did not impose a stay-at-home order, the demand for online food shopping may be …

female mortality (EFM) and fertility in Taiwan. For identification, we exploit plausibly exogenous variation in the …