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firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
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firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010681216
firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095644
This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign ownership affects the likelihood of manufacturers in developing countries to export and/or import. Applying propensity score matching to control for differences across firms in terms of labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011208179
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial …
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the exporting versus the importing country. Trade liberalization in the form of less lumpy trade is shown to expand the … role of export and import intermediaries but to have potentially negative effects on the volume of international trade and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210404
We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547900
This paper develops an oligopolistic model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and endogenous R&D to … examine how trade liberalization affects firm and industry productivity, as well as social welfare. We identify four effects … of trade liberalization on productivity: (i) a direct effect through changes in R&D investment; (ii) a scale effect due …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010611238
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolitic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543244
We use unique plant-level data to study the link between the local availability of services and the decision of manufacturing firms to source materials from abroad. To guide our empirical analysis we develop a monopolistic-competition model of the materials sourcing decisions of heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468604