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This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
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mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …
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mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in … that can inform policy makers in an evidence-based way. -- International firm activities ; productivity ; firm level data …
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investigate productivity effects for a given firm resulting from the import or export of intermediate inputs by domestic upstream … productivity. Further, our results highlight two common, but important, misspecification biases: ignoring the dynamic nature of … productivity and estimating a value-added instead of a gross-output production function …
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-firm trade are its larger size and higher productivity level. Its size premia range between 31.5% and 56.3% and its productivity …
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While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms' foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica's investment...
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Multinational production has become increasingly important in recent decades. Countries resort to different industrial policies to influence the geography of this production. In this paper, we focus on a ubiquitous “soft” industrial policy that aims at reducing information barriers -...
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We examine the process of internationalisation of firms, contributing to the knowledge on the factors behind a successful entry and operation in the export markets using duration analysis. Rich longitudinal microlevel data on Finnish manufacturing plants allow an indepth analysis of the life...
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While countries make use of a wide range of policies to attract multinational firms, identifying the effect of such policies is difficult. Combining firm-level data on both the location of these firms’ foreign affiliates and detailed service-specific information from Costa Rica’s investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013229704
We analyze the link between firms’ access to finance and their decisions to enter and exit the export market. We employ the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) conducted in 2005 and 2008-2009 to 28 countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. We find that more...
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