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increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …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 …
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liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level "ability" and firm …-level ability raises a firm's productivity across all products, which induces a positive correlation between a firm's intensive … (output per product) and extensive (number of products) margins. Trade liberalization fosters productivity growth within and …
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. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …
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study uses Chinese firm-product-level export data to examine how an AD action, a very targeted trade policy against a … specific product in a specific export destination, affects a multiproduct firms' price and quantity decisions across its other … products and export destinations. We find robust evidence for a new phenomenon we call within-firm cross-product trade …
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In this paper I analyze the productivity gains from trade liberalization in the Belgian textile industry. So far …, empirical research has established a strong relationship between opening up to trade and productivity, relying almost entirely … on deflated sales to proxy for output in the production function. The latter implies that the resulting productivity …
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both a firm's exported product range and product mix. We show how tougher competition in an export market induces a firm to … skew its export sales towards its best performing products. We find very strong confirmation of this competitive effect for … French exporters across export market destinations. Theoretically, this within firm change in product mix driven by the …
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top-quality products on the intensive margin. The product quality ladder also governs firms ' export dynamics, both in …
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adjust traditional measures of multi factor productivity growth for variations in short-run utilization …
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This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …
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of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …
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