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We investigate the impact of import competition from low-cost countries on the exit of domestic firms from the manufacturing industries of eight European countries. We find a significant positive impact on the exit of large firms, while small firms are not directly affected. The empirical...
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Rice is an important source for foreign exchange earnings for Pakistan's economy, keeping this fact in mind, this study is to calculate competitiveness of rice export of Pakistan in the international market compared to largest exporter countries and this article is the first empirical attempt...
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From the standpoint of policies, the different branches of economics may be aggregated into two categories: dirigiste and laissez fairist. Dirigiste theories in economics have been based primarily on the complexity of commodities: this allows commodities to be ranked according to the...
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Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from 20 countries, we documentfive stylized facts on market power in global markets. First, competition has declinedaround the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm markups during 2000-2015. Second, the markup increase...
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Purpose – This paper's aim is to evaluate the effect of the use of information technology and communications (ITC) on the international competitiveness of firms in developing countries. The study also seeks to evaluate other factors that allow or condition the use of ITC such as: human...
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Many studies raise the issue of relationships between internationalization and innovativeness, linking them with firms' international competitiveness. However, very few of these studies focus on the influence of internationalization on innovativeness and regard the multifaceted nature of these...
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China's admission into the WTO in 2001 heralded a new era of globalization, increasing both import competition in domestic markets and foreign opportunities for US firms. In the aggregate, the average annual profitability of US public firms during the post globalization period (2003-2019)...
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As the process of globalisation of the world economy progresses, the degree of international competition among … most important factors which determine the degree of globalisation of an industry is the level of transaction costs … two additional determinants of the degree of globalisation, however, limit the meaningfulness of this approach. In some …
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