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Determinants of Export Performance of Pakistan: Evidence from the Firm-Level Data
Din, Musleh ud; Ghani, Ejaz; Mahmood, Tariq - In: The Pakistan Development Review 48 (2009) 3, pp. 227-240
This paper explores the determinants of export performance at the level of firms in respect of their characteristics and supply side constraints. The analysis is based on a survey of export-oriented firms in four major sectors. The results indicate a relationship between the better performance...
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Trade Sophistication in a Transition Economy: Poland 1980–2009
Kellman, Mitchell; Shachmurove, Mitchell Yochanan - Zakład Ekonometrii Stosowanej, Szkoła Główna … - 2012
Poland has historically demonstrated exceptional resiliency in the face of change. This paper examines how Poland coped with huge structural realignments from the rise of Solidarity until the present, seeking to provide an objective analysis of Poland’s evolution of trade structures while it...
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U.S. High Technology Clusters
Acs, Zoltan J - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1993
It is well known that both "Silicon Valley" and "Route 128 Boston" owe much of their success ot the proximity of Stanford University and MIT. Knowledge spillovers from large research universities contribute to increasing returns, resulting in divergent development between clusters. This...
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Financial health, exports, and firm survival: Evidence from UK and French firms
Gőrg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - Department of Economics, Adam Smith Business School - 2012
adverse effects of financial constraints for their survival prospects. By contrast, the exit probability of continuous …We use firm level data to assess the role of exporting in the link between financial health and firm survival. The data …, finance and survival are broadly similar in the British and French sub-samples. …
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Entry, Exit, and Productivity in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
Ben Jelili, Riadh; Goaied, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
unemployment rates. Aside to direct employment effects, high firm creation rates are supposed to have a positive impact on the … formal may also have important effects on GDP growth. This chapter presents some stylized facts about firms' entry and exit … and business environment in Tunisia. Data used to analyze patterns of entry and exit in Tunisian manufacturing industries …
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Exit, Entry and industry turbulence in Austrian Manufacturing, 1981-1994
Hölzl, Werner - Vienna University of Economics and Business Research … - 2002
This research explores both industry and temporal aspects of entry, exit and industry turbulence in Austrian … stable over time, exit and especially the turnover and volatility of firms is influenced more by temporal effects. A … regression analysis into the determinants of industry dynamics associated with entry and exit shows that sunk costs, scale …
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The Effect of Tariff Reductions on Firm Size and Firm Turnover in Canadian Manufacturing
Gu, Wulong - 2009
tariff reductions had a positive and significant effect on the exit rate of manufacturing firms. The estimated impact of the … tariff cuts was an increase in the exit rate of 0.7 to 2.0 percentage points for the most affected industries over the 1988 … exit of least efficient firms, thereby contributing to productivity growth …
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Firms in International Trade
Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen James; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - 2012
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031018
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - 2012
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014031068