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proposed by Finger and Kreinin (1979) with product quality. Quality is measured using unit export prices in the tradition of … the horizontal/vertical intra-industry trade literature. We analyse the EU27 countries' export structures using 1) overall … measures. We find that the similarity of the export structures of the new member countries and the cohesion countries vis …
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This paper analyzes how intensified Chinese export competition affects the exports and product ranges of firms from … Finland. Using a novel identification strategy that exploits changes in Chinese export policies, we find that Chinese export … respond to the increased level of Chinese export competition by dropping their marginal products. Taken together, these …
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export market shares. The results regarding price/cost competitiveness are less robust and depend on the measure used. Hence … factors had impact on their export performance. For that purpose, we run a series of panel regressions in which export market … shares are explained by various measures of price/cost competitiveness, technological advancement and institutional …
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This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
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The close relationship between politics and enterprises made the revolving door wide open and reinforced business influence on political decisions. The paper analyses relationship between firm entry institutions and import competition inside the EU. Though there is a clear tendency for entry and...
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Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...
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This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537240
In this paper we use a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms that includes firm-level price data to investigate whether increased penetration of Chinese products affects the competitive environment in an advanced country like Italy. Instrumenting import penetration from China to account...
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The close relationship between politics and enterprises made the revolving door wide open and reinforced business influence on political decisions. This paper analyses the relationship between firm entry institutions and import competition inside the EU. Though there is a clear tendency for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071975
competitiveness) and the competitive position of the Polish agri-food sector on the Single European Market (SEM) with reference to the … (potential competitiveness) on a European scale, is at the same time characterized by the significant structural deficiencies of … trade in agri-food products, and the comparative advantages achieved on the SEM became a source of favorable export …
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