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We investigate the link between productivity of firms and their sourcing behavior. Following Antràs & Helpman (2004) we distinguish between domestic and foreign sourcing, as well as between outsourcing and vertical integration. A firm's choice is driven by a hold-up problem caused by lack of...
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The prevalence of Internet-based sales by exporters vs. non-exporters is highlighted in a recent World Bank Report (Ferro, 2011) suggesting the use of sophisticated processes when selling overseas. We investigate the count of new process/ product innovations for a group of newly exporting...
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improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …
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This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation framework for panel-data sets with binary dependent variables where a large number of cross-sectional units is observed over a short period of time, and cross-sectional units are interdependent in more than a single network domain. The latter provides...
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improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …
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, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … significant. With the preferred estimation, a one per cent increase in the use of intermediates imported from China does, on …
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improving production efficiency and product quality in both countries, but it matters more in China than in the US, especially …
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ventures in China from 1998 to 2007 - roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world - we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures. …
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Whether a firm is able to attract foreign capital and whether it may participate at the export market depends on whether the fixed costs associated with doing so are at least covered by the incremental operating profits. This paper provides evidence that success for some firms in attracting...
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ventures in China from 1998 to 2007—roughly a quarter of all international joint ventures in the world—we find, first, that … virtually absent in broad sectors that include economic activities for which China's FDI policy has prohibited joint ventures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915082