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Exporting and Performance of Plants : Evidence from Korean Manufacturing

Hahn, Chin Hee - 2004

This study examines the relationship between exporting and various performance measures including total factor productivity, using the annual plant-level panel data on Korean manufacturing sector during the period of 1990 to 1998. The two key questions examined are whether exporting improves...

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Exporting Raises Productivity in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Plants

Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2003

Proponents of trade liberalization argue that it will force firms to produce closer to the production possibility frontier and that the frontier will move out faster. In particular, plants that export will achieve a higher productivity level. However intuitive the argument, empirical evidence is...

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Venting Out : Exports During a Domestic Slump

Almunia, Miguel - 2018

could well have accounted for around one-half of the spectacular increase in Spanish goods exports (the so-called 'Spanish …

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Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

Mayer, Thierry - 2016

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 best performing products; and also extend the range...

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R&D Investment, Exporting, and Productivity Dynamics

Aw, Bee Yan - 2009

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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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005

. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …

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Exports and Manufacturing Productivity in East Asia : A Comparative Analysis with Firm-Level Data

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2002

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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Affiliate Activity in Japanese and U.S. Multinationals and Japanese Exports, 1986-1995

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2001

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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Exporting and Productivity

Bernard, Andrew B. - 1999

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed …

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Exports and Foreign Investment in Manufacturing Industries

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1976

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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