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This paper uses rich firm-level data for the UK to investigate the link between firms' financial health and export exit, paying attention to the ERM currency crisis and the global financial crisis. Our results show that deterioration in the financial position of firms has increased the hazard of...
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Using data for all exporters, we show that it is a small group of firms that dominate exports in Spain. For example, in … 2015 the top 200 firms were responsible for half of Spanish exports. This concentration has not changed substantially over … of Spanish exports. If top exporters disappeared, Spain would lose its revealed comparative advantage in 60% of …
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Using firm level data this study investigates the relation between export activity and firm’s profitability. The paper shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically associated to higher firm’s profitability. This is shown...
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This paper studies how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and investigates whether this effect depends on existing financial constraints. Our empirical analysis relies on export data for more than 100,000 Chinese exporters over the period 2000-2006....
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productivity premium of direct exporters only. While other studies have shown that exports by trade intermediaries increase with …
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Recent studies in international trade report that new exporters often start selling small amounts and cease exporting in the first year. These findings reflect a substantial amount of uncertainty facing new exporters. In this paper we study whether export activities in the neighborhood reveal...
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trade cost for large trading firms leads to an increase in export intensity (i.e., exports over total sales). Such results …
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and import patterns. Exports of the products shipped from EPZs increase throughout the province, with the largest gains in …
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sector outlook. This article estimates the effect of tariffs on Spanish non-energy, non-EU goods exports drawing on data … by another country on a Spanish product entails a reduction in nominal exports of around 0.6%. Protectionist risks …
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This paper studies how learning from neighboring firms affects new exporters' performance. We develop a statistical decision model in which a firm updates its prior belief about demand in a foreign market based on several factors, including the number of neighbors currently selling there, the...
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