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trade, the length of time a firm exports to a destination, and the number and mix of destinations, as well as the export … prices, while cost is more important in explaining the quantity of firm exports on the intensive margin. We use the estimates … to analyze the reallocation resulting from removal of the quota on Chinese footwear exports to the EU and find that it …
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A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro data. Recent empirical studies and theoretical analyses have emphasized that this may reflect the producer's other investment activities, particularly investments in R&D or new...
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. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …
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This paper uses new firm level data from five East Asian countries to explore the patterns of manufacturing productivity across the region. One of the striking patterns that emerges is how the extent of openness and the competitiveness of markets affects the relative productivity of firms across...
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This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second … analyzes the relation of changes in Japanese exports to levels of and changes in employment in Japanese and U.S. MNC affiliates …
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role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed …
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The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less capital-intensive industries, and a dense network of firms specializing in subcontracting and trading services. It has been argued that these features lower the start-up costs of...
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One of the main purposes of our studies of U.S.-based multinational firms has been to examine the relationship between direct investment by U.S. firms and the export trade of the United States, a subject of bitter controversy for at least the last fifteen years. Changes over time in trade flows...
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could well have accounted for around one-half of the spectacular increase in Spanish goods exports (the so-called 'Spanish …
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The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal analysis of the effect of surging import competition on...
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