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Importing, Exporting and the Productivity of Services Firms in Sub-Saharan Africa
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
Abstract In this paper we examine productivity differences between trading and non-trading firms in the services sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699844
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Importing, Exporting and Performance in Sub-Saharan African Manufacturing Firms
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Isaksson, Anders; Kaulich, Florian - Wiener Institut für Internationale … - 2013
This paper examines productivity differences between internationally trading and non-trading firms using data on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010820186
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Costs of trade and self-selection into exporting and importing: The case of Turkish manufacturing firms
Dalgic, Basak; Fazlioglu, Burcu; Gasiorek, Michael - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2015
This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential …-selection effect for both importing and exporting firms with a stronger effect for importers. The results suggest that the nature of … sunk costs varies between importing and exporting activities with importers facing higher sunk costs. Tariffs represent a …
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - In: Annual Review of Economics 4 (2012) 1, pp. 283-313
This article reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from microdata on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010822981
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371478
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A closer look at the productivity advantage of foreign affiliates
Backer, Koen De; Sleuwaegen, Leo - In: International Journal of the Economics of Business 12 (2005) 1, pp. 17-34
In analyzing firm productivity in Belgium, this article shows empirically that both scale and efficiency contribute … positively to the typical productivity advantage of foreign affiliates. Stochastic production frontier estimation using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005471686
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International marketing in an enlarged European Union: Some insights into cultural heterogeneity in Central Europe
Skinner, Heather; Kubacki, Krzysztof; Moss, Gloria; … - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 3, pp. 193-193
We inhabit a global village in which international marketers are encouraged to think and act with both global and local interests in mind. The enlargement of the European Union (EU) in January 2007 has created a 27 member state EU with a population of nearly half a billion. The purpose of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704634
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Work related values and attitudes in Central and Eastern Europe
Borgulya, Agnes; Hahn, Judit - In: Journal for East European Management Studies 13 (2008) 3, pp. 216-216
After the shift from centrally planned to market economies, CEE countries experienced significant changes in the world of work. Full employment was replaced by a distortion in labour markets, a rapid rise in unemployment and intensive labour emigration. The following questions are discussed: (1)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005572430
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Skills, Labour Costs and Vertically Differentiated Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Lutz, Stefan; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The effect of labour costs on industry profits, employment and labour income is at the heart of the current European debate on industry competitiveness. High wages paid in European countries such as Germany are generally considered harmful for industry profitability. Although, high wages also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124124
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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - CESifo - 2013
This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis’s (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...
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