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Do Firms Learn by Exporting or Learn to Export? Evidence from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Swedish Manufacturing

Hansson, Pär; Eliasson, Kent; Lindvert, Markus - 2009

Using a matching approach, we compare the productivity trajectories of future exporters and matched and unmatched non-exporters. Future exporters have higher productivity than do unmatched non-exporters before entry into the export market, which indicates self-selection into exports. More...

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Export and firms' performance in North Macedonia: self selection or learning by doing?

Jovanovic, Biljana - 2020

Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms engaged in exporting activity tend to have superior characteristics compared to their non-exporting peers. The paper is focused on identifying reasons behind this superiority of...

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Markups from inventory data and export intensity

Milicevic, Teodora Borota; Carlsson, Mikael - 2016

In this paper we propose a novel method for the price-cost markup estimation and study the relationship between export intensity and the markup. We impose much less restrictive identifying assumptions on technology and adjustment frictions compared to previous studies and use Swedish firm-level...

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Determinants of Competitiveness of the Indian Auto Industry

Narayanan G., Badri; Vashisht, Pankaj - 2008

This paper analyses the determinants of competitiveness of auto industry in India, based on a field survey and a quantitative analysis of secondary data. It highlights that all segments of Indian auto sector are growing at a fairly high rates and their productivity as well as export intensity is...

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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export

Srinivasan, T. N.; Archana, Vani - 2009

This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...

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Outsourcing and skill-specific employment in a small economy: Austria and the fall of the Iron Curtain

Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter - 2000

We present a model, in which a small industrialised economy outsources part of its production into a small foreign country which is well endowed with low-skilled labour. We analyse under which conditions sinking trade costs stimulate outsourcing activities, thereby increasing the wage dispersion...

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Firms and economic performance: A view from trade

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2018

We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries' market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...

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Concentration in international markets: Evidence from US imports

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2019

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firm has grown, and the...

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Foreign direct investment and R&D offshoring

Gersbach, Hans; Schmutzler, Armin - 2006

causes a relocation of R&D activities if intrafirm communication is sufficiently well developed, external spillovers are …

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Multinational enterprises, international trade, and productivity growth: Firm-level evidence from the United States

Keller, Wolfgang; Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2003

We estimate international technology spillovers to U.S. manufacturing firms via imports and foreign direct investment … productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 14% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

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