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The paper estimates the effect of product standards on firms? export decisions using two novel datasets. The first … exporting as well as their export values and quantities. The relative restrictiveness of standards also deters exporting firms … effect of product standards on firms? export decisions. Smaller exporters are more negatively affected in their market entry …
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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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How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 countries over the period 1965-2010. Three stylized facts emerge. First, although...
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This paper compares the impact of distance, a standard proxy for trade costs, on eBay and offline international trade flows. It considers the same set of 62 countries and the same basket of goods for both types of transactions, and finds the effect of distance to be on average 65 percent smaller...
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this link, the paper combines analysis highlighting external financing as a determinant of export performance, and analysis … these sectors more dependent on external financing. Using sector- and firm-level export data with country-level indicators …
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This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … comparing the performance of firms that export to low-income destinations and high-income destinations with firms that do not … export. A combination of propensity score matching and difference-in-differences methods are employed on a rich set of firm …
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This paper provides evidence on how bank performance and strategies vary with the degree of bank internationalization, using data for 113 countries over 2000-15. The paper investigates whether international banks headquartered in developing countries behave and perform differently from those...
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. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
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46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …
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world. With the global economy evolving continuously and rapidly, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on … to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The …
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