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The role of services for competitiveness in manufacturing
Nordås, Hildegunn Kyvik; Kim, Yunhee - 2013
This study analyses the relationships between competitiveness in manufacturing and the quality of key supporting … services. Three indicators of competitiveness are considered: the degree of product differentiation, unit prices obtained in … time it takes to export and import goods are strongly related to competitiveness. Our methodology allows us to go beyond a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775476
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Impact of Type of Export Finance on Firms’ Export Profitability : A Study of Industrial Clusters in Gujarat, India
Chugan, Pawan K. - 2017
Financing resources play a significant role in escalating export ventures particularly of MSMEs (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) which face a stiff competition from the larger firms. Finance is essential not only for successful operation of current activities of the firm but also aids in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012965533
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Impact of Relationship Quality on Firm's Export Profitability : A Study of SMEs in Gujarat
Singh, Shivangi; Chugan, Pawan K. - 2014
The appearance of relationship quality paradigm in the field of international business has resulted in growing need to manage, develop and evaluate relationships amongst the exporters and importers besides influencing the profitability of the firm in the long-run. In the same light, this study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014037389
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Competition in the service sector and the performances of manufacturing firms : does liberalization matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003937587
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Product Quality and Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
Gervais, Antoine - 2015
This paper quantifies the separate contributions of product quality and technical efficiency in explaining variation in export outcomes across U.S. manufacturing plants. Unlike previous plant-level studies that rely on unit values, I obtain direct measures of idiosyncratic demand from price and...
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Learning, prices, and firm dynamics
Bastos, Paulo; Dias, Daniel; Timoshenko, Olga A. - 2017
We document new facts about the evolution of firm performance and prices in international markets, and propose a theory of firm dynamics emphasizing the interaction between learning about demand and quality choice to explain the observed patterns. Using data from the Portuguese manufacturing...
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Foreign Market Conditions and Export Performance : Evidence from Italian Firm-Level Data
Breinlich, Holger - 2009
demand and the degree of competitiveness or crowdedness of a foreign market. The latter is a summary measure of the number …
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Fight or flight? : how do firms adapt their product mix in response to demand and competition
Macedoni, Luca; Zhang, Rui; Warzynski, Frederic - 2024
We propose a new model of multi-product firms in international trade, where firms choose their product mix based on the products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish manufacturing data, which demonstrate the importance of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014551012
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Competition in the Service Sector and the Performances of Manufacturing Firms : Does Liberalization Matter?
Forlani, Emanuele - 2010
Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition in the service sector affects downstream manufacturing firms' efficiency, via the inputs used. Using French micro-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147792
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Offshoring and skill-upgrading in French manufacturing : a Heckscher-Ohlin-Melitz view
Carluccio, Juan; Cuñat, Alejandro; Fadinger, Harald; … - 2015
We present a factor-proportions trade model in which heterogeneous firms can offshore intermediate inputs subject to fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346866