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The aim of this paper is to take a structured approach at estimating the coefficients of factors explaining movements of the labour share across countries. In particular, we focus on proper dynamic specification and test the validity of the homogeneity assumption of slope coefficients frequently...
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In the absence of an international agreement on climate policy, unilateral carbon abatement creates two problems: It tends to have a detrimental effect on domestic competitiveness, and it leads to an increase in carbon emissions abroad (leakage). This paper analyses two policies that have...
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This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy … technologies. Regression analyses and matching approaches both show very few impacts of energy policy on export performance …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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industries is found to be the main reason behind China's export barriers. They are part of a more extensive strategy aiming at …We investigate why governments restrict exports of exotic raw materials taking rare earth elements as a case study … creating comparative advantages in these sectors and at overcoming path dependencies. Moreover, export barriers serve as a …
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degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference ….S., Japan, Italy and Spain. Pricing to market is more prevalent in exports of chemicals and fertilisers than in machinery …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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evidence of state dependence in the current export status of firms. Unobserved permanent firm heterogeneity ("spurious state … dependence") is found to be less important than suggested by earlier studies. The existence of true state dependence in exports …
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The relationship between individual firms’ export behaviour and firm performance has been studied extensively in the …-exporting companies, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing the performance of exporting and non … individual firms’ export behaviour. Instead of a binary treatment variable, the GPS method allows for continuous treatment, that …
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