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Export activities have become crucial to firms' competitiveness, with determinants of export performance being a challenging field of research, since there is no consensus regarding the explained and explanatory variables or on the econometric methods to be used. Using a panel data of Portuguese...
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Most firm-level research on the characteristics and strategies of globalized firms focuses on manufacturing industries while firm-level evidence on trade in services is still rare and has just recently begun to emerge. This study uses an unique dataset of Austrian service exporting firms over a...
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The paper applies the gravity model of international trade in its analysis of German exports. The added value of our … new insights into the analysis of German export performance. Our panel dataset includes German exports to 176 countries … European neighbourhood relative to the world average. Exports are sensitive to both the real exchange rate movements and the …
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The results generally confirm that Czech trade is oriented towards European countries and determined primarily by key economic factors of domestic and foreign GDP. The institutional variables remain largely insignificant, except corruption due tothe counterintuitive result that a higher...
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effect that language learning opportunities abroad have on German exports. We employ a gravity model of trade with a single … importance of potential reverse causality, we also estimate the effect that institutes have on Swiss exports. Our findings for … both Germany and German-speaking Swiss cantons show that institutes do stimulate exports to GI-hosting countries, but that …
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In this paper we analyze the determinants of export sophistication based on a large panel dataset (2001-2014; 101 countries) and using different estimation algorithms. Using Monte Carlo simulations we evaluate the bias properties of estimators and show that GMM-type estimators outperform...
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Using a panel-data set of Austrian service exporting firms this paper examines the determinants of service exports at … well as a fixed effects Poisson model. Expected firm-level service exports are decomposed into the intensive and extensive …
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Investigating the link between ISO 9000 standards and bilateral exports, this paper contributes to the literature on … international trade. To assess the actual impact we estimate a gravity equation for bilateral exports incorporating ISO 9000 … exports. Moreover, we find evidence for a substitution effect, as ISO 9000 certified firms tend to trade with each other more …
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