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Firm Heterogeneity and Trade in EU Countries : A Cross-Country Analysis
Giordano, Claire - 2019
across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms' productivity growth, via a number … of channels, and also enhances allocative efficiency across firms, in turn increasing aggregate productivity growth. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868134
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Firm Heterogeneity and Trade in EU Countries : A Cross-Country Analysis
Giordano, Claire - 2019
across countries and sectors. On the other hand, engaging in trade boosts individual firms' productivity growth via a number … of channels and enhances allocative efficiency across firms, in turn increasing aggregate productivity growth. One of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012863660
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Transfers in the gravity equation : the case of foreign aid
Kruse, Hendrik W.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2016
This paper presents a theoretical gravity model of trade in which foreign aid is considered as a transfer instead of being part of the trade cost, as it has been previously done in the related literature. We argue that the usual specification leads to invalid out-of-sample predictions, biased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521275
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North-South Trade and Directed Technical Change
Gancia, Gino - 2007
In a world where poor countries provide weak protection for intellectual property rights, market integration shifts … same time, integration with countries where intellectual property rights are weakly protected can slow down the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012729668
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Financial Development and the Choice of Trade Partners
Chan, Jackie - 2015
What determines the choice of countries' trade partners? We show theoretically and empirically that financial market imperfections affect the number and identity of exporters' destinations. Bigger economies with lower trade costs are more attractive markets because they offer higher export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013035906
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Institutions, trade and development : a quantitative analysis
Beverelli, Cosimo; Keck, Alexander; Larch, Mario; … - 2018
We propose and apply methods to quantify the impact of national institutions on international trade and development. We are able to identify the direct impact of country-specific institutions on international trade within the structural gravity framework. Our approach naturally addresses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800710
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Developing country exports of manufactures : moving up the ladder to escape the fallacy of composition?
Razmi, Arslan; Blecker, Robert A. - 2006 - Revised version
The possible existence of a "fallacy of composition" in the simultaneous pursuit of export-led growth by developing countries has received relatively little attention in economic literature. This lack of attention becomes even more apparent in the domain of empirical studies of manufactured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527389
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Share of exports to low-income countries, productivity, and innovation : a replication study with firm-level data from six European countries
Wagner, Joachim - 2015 - This version: July 21, 2015
manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low … found between the share of exports to lowincome countries and either productivity or R&D intensity is never in line with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011298736
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Importing, Exporting, and Innovation in Developing Countries
Seker, Murat - 2014
Several recent studies have shown that not only exporters but also importers perform better than firms that do not trade. Using a detailed firm level dataset from 43 developing countries, I show that there are persistent differences in evolution of firms when they are grouped according to their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067745
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Innovation, firm productivity, and export survival : firm-level evidence from ASEAN developing countries
Jitsutthiphakorn, Utumporn - In: Journal of economic structures : JES; the official … 10 (2021), pp. 1-17
This firm-level study investigates the importance of innovation as a determinant of firm productivity and how firm … productivity could impact firm export survival. This is the first integration of the innovation approach, productivity approach … database from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, which covers six developing countries in ASEAN - the Philippines, Indonesia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698620