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relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …
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relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008906770
margins of trade and firm productivity. We employ proxies for trade costs to quantify the extensive and intensive margin … greater productivity and value-added, more employees and exported products. Across firms, productivity is positively …
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role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …
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relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …
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This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching by U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...
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This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that two-thirds of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that one-third of the increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972...
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This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers...
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This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011956292