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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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This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...
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Chinese exports. This is impressive because much of the data for their replication are independently sourced. However, when …
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results. First, the authors are able to reproduce empirical evidence for AKW’s three main predictions for Chinese exports …
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performance. The magnitude of the effect is large: a one percent increase in spending on technology increases exports by 30 … spending on technology imported from leaders increases exports by 176 percent, whereas a one percent increase in spending on … technology imported from non-leaders increases exports by about 28 percent. -- Technology Choice ; Exporting ; Productivity …
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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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productivity premium of direct exporters only. While other studies have shown that exports by trade intermediaries increase with …
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This paper provides an overview of the magnitude and composition of recent U.S. exports of advanced technology products … (ATPs) to China, and shows how such exports are differentiated from U.S. ATP exports to the rest of the world (ROW). It … demonstrates that U.S. ATP exports to China have expanded rapidly in recent years, becoming increasingly concentrated in electronic …
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This paper decomposes within-industry differences in bilateral trade flows across countries into the contributions of (observed) trade costs and (unobserved) product appeal, production costs, and markups. To obtain empirical measures for unobserved characteristics, I estimate the structural...
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We study the role of financial frictions and balance-sheet effects in accounting for the dynamics of aggregate exports … increase of exports observed in these episodes. Exports increase since financially-constrained exporters are able to reallocate … sales across markets. We show analytically the role of this mechanism on exports adjustment and document its importance …
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