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The ladder of foreign sales : internationalization modes of European firms
Békés, Gábor; Muraközy, Balázs - 2015
This paper show evidence that firms choose from a much larger set of internationalization modes than usually assumed in the international trade literature and that this choice is governed by similar selection processes than the one proposed by Helpman, Melitz, Yeaple (2004 AER). We rely on a...
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Exporter Wage Premium : A Plant-Level Analysis with Canadian Linked Employer-Employee Data
Huang, Xinning - 2016
Export promotion policy is often employed by governments to spur economic growth. This paper uses Canadian linked … significantly three years after a plant enters export markets. Unlike the skill-upgrading mechanism for developing countries, the … most plausible explanation for the effect in Canada, a small developed country, is that more intense competition in export …
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Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Manaresi, Francesco; Rachedi, Omar - 2022
Minimum wages alter the allocation of firm-idiosyncratic risk across workers. To establish this result, we focus on Italy, and leverage employer-employee data matched to firm balance sheets and hand-collected wage floors. We find a relatively larger pass-through of firm-specific labor-demand...
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Minimum wages and insurance within the firm
Adamopoulou, E rosyni; Manaresi, Francesco; Rachedi, Omar; … - 2024
Minimum wages generate an asymmetric pass-through of rm shocks across workers. We establish this result leveraging employer-employee data on Italian metalmanufacturing rms, which face di erent wage oors that vary within occupations. In response to negative rm productivity shocks, workers close...
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Firms and products in international trade: data and patterns for Hungary
Békés, Gábor; Harasztosi, Péter; Muraközy, Balász - 2009
This paper provides a detailed description of Hungarian trade data and key patters drawn at the firm and product level. The IEHAS-CEFiG Hungary dataset is an almost universal panel of balance sheet information (1992-2006) merged with firmproductcountry level customs data (1992-2003) taken until...
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Firms and Products in International Trade : Evidence from Hungary
Bekes, Gabor - 2011
This paper provides a detailed description of Hungarian trade data and key patterns drawn at the firm and product level. In the Bernard et al. (2007) tradition, statistics describe the prevalence of trading activity, typology of firms by internationalisation, and concentration of trade volume...
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Trade Flows, Multilateral Resistance, and Firm Heterogeneity
Behar, Alberto - 2013
We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by...
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Exporting and innovation : theory and firm-level evidence from the People's Republic of China
Lin, Faqin; Hsiao Chink Tang - 2013
innovation among firms that export processed goods, specifically, those in the electronics sectors, located in coastal provinces …
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Assessing European firms' exports and productivity distributions : the CompNet trade module
Berthou, Antoine; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Bugamelli, Matteo; … - 2015
and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to … nonexporters. However, this productivity premium is rising with the export experience of firms, with permanent exporters being much …
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Firms in international trade
Díez, Federico J.; Mora, Jesse; Spearot, Alan C. - 2016 - This version: December 2016
Firms play a critical role in the global economy. In this paper, we survey the behavior of firms in the international economy, both in theory and in the data. We first summarize the key empirical facts that motivate the study of firms in trade. Then, we detail recent theoretical developments on...
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