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Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...
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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 …
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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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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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This paper studies the effects of different public innovation funding programs on the innovation output and export … contributes to higher innovation outputs, which in turn translates into higher export success in later years. This relation … a significant positive effect on SMEs' export performance. For funding programs run by regional authorities, we find …
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export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …
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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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domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …
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This paper establishes that individuals with an internal locus of control, i.e., who believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, earn higher wages. However, this positive effect only translates into labor income via the channel...
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