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Why don’t all exporters benefit from free trade agreements? : estimating utilization costs

Ulloa, Alfie; Wagner, Rodrigo - 2012

Free Trade Agreements (FTA) attract significant interest, but after these treaties are signed not all exporters use them. We provide a model of heterogeneous utilization, also developing a novel method to estimate treaty-utilization costs. We later apply the model to estimate the evolution...

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Trade specialisation and policies to foster competition and innovation in Denmark

McGowan, Muge Adalet - 2014

Danish productivity has grown only weakly over the past two decades, both historically and in relation to other countries, despite sound policies and institutions. At the same time, the country has lost export market shares. Denmark needs to continue its efforts to reap the benefits of...

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Enabling participation of SMEs in international trade and production networks : trade facilitation, trade finance and communication technology

Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2014

This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production …. Logit models of SME export and IPN participation revealed the importance of several trade facilitation and related factors …. Access to a variety of external trade finance sources was found to be important to boost SME export participation, with bank …

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Joining the supply chain : a firm-level perspective from Southeast Asia

Wignaraja, Ganeshan - 2014

This paper undertakes a comparative, firm-level analysis of joining the supply chain in five Southeast Asian economies to improve our understanding of fragmentation of manufacturing across borders. The research maps supply chains and conducts firm-level econometric analysis on 5,900 enterprises....

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Internationalization and Performance of Italian Enterprises

Gattai, Valeria - 2013

This paper surveys recent contributions about internationalization and performance of Italian enterprises. It covers both theoretical and empirical studies taking a microeconomic perspective and studying a potential link between firms' global involvement and heterogeneity in economic, human...

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Investments, Export Entry and Export Intensity in Small Manufacturing Firms

Esaku, Stephen - 2020

We analyze the effect of investment in physical capital on the firm's choice to enter the export market and increase export intensity. We specifically examine the hypothesis that firm-level investment facilitates small firms to initiate exporting and increase their export intensity. Using...

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Kaleidoscope of Export Performance of Indian SMEs

Saxena, Swami - 2019

the number of SME units in India have played relatively important role in growing pattern of SMEs exports …

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Advice on the Opportunities and Challenges Facing Small and Medium Australian Export-Oriented Businesses that Seek to Leverage Free Trade Agreements for the Export of Goods and Ser...

Di Lieto, Giovanni - 2018

This submission draws on empirical evidence (see appendix) to consider the terms of the inquiry in relation to the nine key barriers to free trade agreement (FTA) utilisation outlined in the 2016 KPMG report on leveraging FTAs for Australian trade growth, including: lack of awareness of FTA...

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SMEs and Smarter Business Regulations

Kapur, Anil - 2014

It is apparent that business regulatory practices across economies have been gradually but noticeably converging toward the more efficient practices common in higher income economies. How much has the gap narrowed? Did some regions close the regulatory gap more rapidly than others? This paper...

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Smes Are More Important Than You Think! Challenges and Opportunities for EU Exporting Smes

Cernat, Lucian; Norman-Lopez, Ana; Duch T-Figueras, Ana - 2021

This paper highlights the heterogeneity among SMEs exporting outside the EU across EU Member States and reviews how barriers facing SMEs can be tackled trade policy discussions. With over 600,000 goods exporting SMEs (over 80% of the total number of EU goods exporting firms) accounting for one...

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