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The Impact of Firm Size and Market Size Asymmetries on National Mergers in a Three-Country Model
Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper studies the impact of firm and market size asymmetries on merger decisions. To do that I consider a model where a small and a large country compete in a third (world) market. Each of the two countries has two firms (with potentially different costs) that supply the domestic market and...
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Trade exposure, survival and growth of small and medium-size firms
Álvarez, Roberto; Vergara, Sebastián - In: International Review of Economics & Finance 25 (2013) C, pp. 185-201
small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the manufacturing sector have experienced negative effects on their survival … probability and employment growth over time. Our results do not suggest that higher trade exposure affects negatively the SMEs … SMEs are more likely to survive in industries with higher exposure to international trade. In terms of employment growth …
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Exchange rate policy and export performance in a landlocked developing country: The case of Nepal
Paudel, Ramesh C; Burke, Paul J - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015
This paper examines the implications of Nepal’s exchange rate policy for its export performance over the period 1980–2010. We first document Nepal’s long-standing currency peg against the Indian rupee and that Nepal’s real exchange rate appreciated substantially from the late 1990s. We...
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Assessing the export performance in transition countries: the case of the Republic of Moldova
STRATAN, Alexandru; CLIPA, Victoria - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 33 (2011) 2(bis)(42), pp. 113-129
Despite their common legacy of central planning and of a new beginning in the ’90s, transition countries have achieved different export performances. Although there is not a consensus among economists on the dimension of exports impact on economic growth, the non-performance or poor...
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India in the Global and Regional Trade - Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms’ Decision to Export
Srinivasan, T.N.; Archana, Vani - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper contributes to two strands of literature on empirical models of trade flows and trade policy. The first and the older strand is that of gravity models of bilateral trade flows going back to Hans Linneman (1966) and Tinbergen (1962) and its recent applications, particularly by Adams et...
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Determinants of Export Decision of Indian Firms: A Primary Data Analysis
Srinivasan, T.N.; Archana, Vani - In: Journal of Quantitative Economics 9 (2011) July, pp. 6-35
This paper reports the findings from a purposive survey of 400 firms across different regions in India and in selected industry segments. It analyses the factors determining firms' decision to export and their performance, in particular, the role of infrastructure constraints and internal costs....
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Is there an empirical link between trade liberalisation and export performance?
Ratnaike, Yasanji C. - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 375-378
A panel data approach is used to investigate both the steady-state and the transitional impact of trade liberalisation on export performance within a sample of selected OECD countries. The results find trade policy to be a largely insignificant determinant of export performance. Domestic...
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Globalization, Survival, and Growth of Small and Medium-Sized Firms
Alvarez, Roberto - 2006
small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) have experienced negative effects on their survival probability and employment … growth. Our results do not support some popular claims that SMEs are highly damaged by globalization. To better identify … the same size in less globalized industries, SMEs are more likely to survive in industries more exposed to external …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734531
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Free Trade Agreements and Firm-Product Markups in Chilean Manufacturing
Lamorgese, A. R.; Linarello, A.; Warzynski, Frederic - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
In this paper, we use detailed information about firms’ product portfolio to study how trade liberalization affects prices, markups and productivity. We document these effects using firm product level data in Chilean manufacturing following two major trade agreements with the EU and the US....
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Strategic Trade Policy in General Oligopolistic Equilibrium
Colacicco, Rudy - FIW - 2013
In a two-country general oligopolistic equilibrium model, I study how cross-sector strategic trade policy affects wages, countrywide profits, and welfare. Firms face resource constraints and wages are simultaneously determined. Relative to free trade, cross-sector protectionism generates a...
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