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The problem of competitiveness has becoming one of the main concerns of European governments. This is reflected trough out the Europe 2020 Strategy that includes as key priority the promotion of efficient and productive use of inputs. Differently to other "well-behaved" European "neighbours", in...
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This paper uses a directional output distance function to estimate a multi-output production frontier for a sample of experimental plots grown for the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems project at the University of California, Davis. Cross-sectional technical efficiency indices are...
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and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. … and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm …
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measured by technical efficiency, export performance, and technological innovation. This study also examines the key factors … performance as measured by export performance and technological innovation performance. The results also reveal that financial … efficiency, but loans from unlicensed moneylenders deteriorate their export performance. For external finance, government …
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Exploring and explaining development gaps between countries is an important theoretical and empirical task. This paper presents empirical studies related to economic growth and its determinants across countries, based on the use of data envelopment analysis method. It emphasizes the importance...
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producers. I use this method to decompose cross-plant variation in price and export status into a quality and an efficiency … firm's export decision is shown to be inconsistent with the traditional iceberg trade cost formulation and points to the …
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export outcomes across U.S. manufacturing plants. Unlike previous plant-level studies that rely on unit values, I obtain … rate and material costs. I use this variation to explain across-plant heterogeneity in export outcomes. The results show …
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the bilateral export efficiency of member-states over the period 1997-2021. The results obtained using a stochastic … COMESA free trade area on export efficiency. In addition, the study finds regulatory quality to have a positive impact on … export efficiency. Controlling for regulatory quality, the results also show that the FTA stimulates export efficiency. Hence …
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