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Learning, Prices, and Firm Dynamics
Bastos, Paulo - 2018
obtaining larger export revenue; (2) older exporters tend to import more expensive inputs; and (3) revenue growth within …
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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...
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Managing Quantity, Quality, and Timing in Indian Cane Sugar Production : Ex Post Marketing Permits or Ex Ante Production Contracts?
Patlolla, Sandhyarani - 2017
Private sugar processors in Andhra Pradesh, India use an unusual form of vertical coordination. They issue' permits' to selected cane growers a few weeks before harvest. These permits specify the amount of cane to be delivered during a narrow time period. This article investigates why processors...
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Income Distribution, Product Quality, and International Trade
Fajgelbaum, Pablo D. - 2017
The authors develop a framework for studying trade in horizontally and vertically differentiated products. In their model, consumers with heterogeneous incomes and tastes purchase a homogeneous good and make a discrete choice of quality and variety of a differentiated product. The distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975700
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Export Quality Dynamics
Krishna, Pravin - 2017
Country export quality (measured by unit values) is correlated with income level suggesting that studying quality dynamics potentially offers insights into the development process. This paper uses highly disaggregated trade data to explore the export quality (unit value) dynamics of goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975929
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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...
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
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The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
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What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2017
service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …
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Customary Land Conversion and the Formation of the African City
Picard, Pierre M. - 2020
, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, this process is accompanied by a change in land tenure, whereby plots held under traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838895