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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa
Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008
other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of … African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … firm-level export intensity. Some qualitative differences exist between Africa's regional exports and exports to the global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014219055
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Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India
Mukim, Megha - 2012
This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers: clustering of general economic activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110004
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Food Standards and Exports : Evidence from China
Mangelsdorf, Axel - 2017
on its agricultural and food exports. The dataset covers seven Chinese products from 1992 to 2008. The findings here … certain quality measures and promote information exchange. The benefits of increased ex-ports outweigh compliance costs. Our …Using a new database on Chinese food standards, this paper estimates the impact of volunta-ry and mandatory standards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975438
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Integrating Gravity : The Role of Scale Invariance in Gravity Models of Spatial Interactions and Trade
Arvis, Jean - 2013
This paper revisits the ubiquitous bi-proportional gravity model and investigates the reasons why different theoretical frameworks may lead to the same empirical formula. The generic gravity equation possesses scale invariance symmetries that constrain possible theoretical explanations based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087465
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Tariff Retaliation Versus Financial Compensation in the Enforcement of International Trade Agreements
Limão, Nuno - 2006
The authors analyze whether financial compensation is preferable to the current system of dispute settlement in the World Trade Organization that permits member countries to impose retaliatory tariffs in response to trade violations committed by other members. They show that monetary fines are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779256
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Market Structure and Market Access
Francois, Joseph F. - 2016
We examine the interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics involving imports of 22 OECD countries vis-agrave;-vis 69 exporters....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747826
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
-distributed firm productivity and fixed costs of exporting, predicts that, conditional on the fixed costs of exporting, all variation … in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. This paper subjects this theoretical prediction … to a reality check drawing upon the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908917
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The Export-Productivity Link in Brazilian Manufacturing Firms
Cirera, X. - 2017
This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … period 2000?08. The Brazilian experience is instructive, as it is a case of an economy that expanded aggregate exports … significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total factor productivity. The paper first estimates firm-level total factor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971419
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Impact of Export Destinations on Firm Performance
Cebeci, Tolga - 2017
This paper evaluates the role of export destinations on productivity, employment, and wages of Turkish firms by … observables, including sector, region, employment, total factor productivity (TFP), capital intensity, wages, support from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973605
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Determinants of Export Growth at the Extensive and Intensive Margins : Evidence from Product and Firm-Level Data for Pakistan
Reis, Jose Guilherme - 2017
of growth and exports at the micro-level: Which products are being produced and exported? Which firms populate the …-to-gross domestic product ratio over the past decade and low levels of sophistication of exports. The main findings of the paper are the … following. Like many other countries, Pakistan posts a high concentration of exports in the hands of a limited number of large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974652