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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019
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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Trade complexity and productivity
Altomonte, Carlo; Békés, Gábor - 2009
Az 1992 és 2003 közötti magyarországi vállalati és termékszintû külkereskedelmi adatok felhasználásával megmutatjuk, hogy az import lényegesen nagyobb hatással van a vállalati termelékenységre, mint az, hogy a állalat exportál-e vagy sem. Megfordítva, az is igaz, hogy az...
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Trade complexity and productivity
Békés, Gábor; Altomonte, Carlo - 2009
investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … correlated within firms, failing to control for the importing activity leads to overstated average productivity premia of … exporters. -- Trade openness ; Firms' Heterogeneity ; Productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008821877
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A structural quantitative analysis of services trade de-liberalization
Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2018
This paper suggests a quantifiable multi-sector-multi-country economic model of goods and services production and consumption. It calibrates overall (variable and fixed) costs to market-specific sales by sector and decomposes these costs into observable and unobservable components. In an...
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Imports and productivity
Halpern, László; Koren, Miklós; Szeidl, Adam - 2005
What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …
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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing
Bräuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2019
This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112493
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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing
Braeuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2020
This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426234
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The rise of Eastern Europe and German labor market reform : dissecting their effects on employment
Walter, Timo - 2021
European productivity shock. e focus lies on the national and county level (including 402 counties). As the e ects on regional … that the "Hartz IV-Reform" and the German productivity contributes positively to the decline of unemployment, whereas the … increase in Eastern European productivity is only responsible for a minor increase in unemployment. …
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Firm heterogeneity and trade in EU countries : a cross-country analysis
Giordano, Claire; López-García, Paloma - 2019
across countries and sectors. On the other hand, opening to trade boosts individual firms’ productivity growth, via a number … of channels, and also enhances allocative efficiency across firms, in turn increasing aggregate productivity growth. One …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012020346
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The gender gap in international trade : female-run firms and the exporter productivity premium
Krenz, Astrid - 2019
economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium …
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