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Watching More than the Discovery Channel : Export Cycles and Diversification in Development
Brenton, Paul - 2016
This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export growth through discovery of new products and growth during post-discovery phases of the export product cycle - acceleration and maturation - in existing markets and expansion into...
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Risks and Opportunities of Participation in Global Value Chains
Gereffi, G. - 2017
This is a background paper to the 2014 World Development Report. Risk is inherent to the pursuit of opportunity. This … value chains. First, it examines the risk-sharing mechanisms that firms provide from the national and global perspectives …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973286
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A Global Urban Risk Index
Brecht, Henrike - 2017
Which cities have the highest risk of human and economic losses due to natural hazards? And how will urban exposure to … major hazards change over the coming decades? This paper develops a global urban disaster risk index that evaluates the … components of this risk measure are urban hazard characteristics, exposure, and vulnerability. For earthquakes, cyclones, floods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974220
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A Cross-Country Database of Fiscal Space
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2017
This paper presents a comprehensive cross-country database of fiscal space, broadly defined as the availability of budgetary resources for a government to service its financial obligations. The database covers up to 200 countries over the period 1990-2016, and includes 28 indicators of fiscal...
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Finance, Comparative Advantage, and Resource Allocation
Jaud, Melise - 2017
The authors show that exported products exit the US market sooner if they violate the Heckscher-Ohlin notion of comparative advantage. Crucially, this pattern is stronger when exporting country has a well-developed banking system, measured by a high ratio of bank credit over the GDP. Banks thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975159
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Export Destinations and Input Prices
Verhoogen, Eric A. - 2017
This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. The authors use exchange rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966023
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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa
Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008
Using firm-level data on manufacturing sectors in Africa, this paper addresses how domestic supply constraints and other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of African manufacturing exports. The degree of market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219055
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Product Standards and Firms? Export Decisions
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
The paper estimates the effect of product standards on firms? export decisions using two novel datasets. The first covers all exporting firms in 42 developing countries. The second covers pesticide standards for 243 agricultural and food products in 63 importing countries over 2006?12. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937194
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Surges and Stops in FDI Flows to Developing Countries : Does the Mode of Entry Make a Difference?
Burger, Martijn J. - 2017
increases and decreases, respectively, of gross foreign direct investment inflows to the developing world and differentiated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973525
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Impact of U.S. Market Access on Local Labor Markets in Vietnam
Hoang, Trung xuan - 2018
This paper examines the impact of U.S. market access on local labor markets in a developing country, Vietnam. The study finds that following the implementation of the Vietnam?United States bilateral trade agreement in December 2001, manufacturing employment increased in provinces that were more...
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