level of employment, sourcing from abroad, investment in product improvement and average productivity are associated with a …

profitability and the quality of exports in enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany, one of the leading actors on the …

Structure of Industrial Exports in Latin America (1990-2010)</h2> We analyze the behavior of industrial exports from a … contrasting it with the performance of the United States, the European Union and South Korea equivalent exports. At this time most … the new millennium, a process of exports diversification towards products with greater technology intensity. This process …

competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services … sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their marginal costs, allowing the model to predict domestic M&A and exit … by closedown, as well as foreign M&A. The model is brought to detailed French firm-level data on exit and M&A in the …

This paper examines how trade liberalization and fluctuations in real exchange rates affect export-market entry/exit … of entry and exit responses as well as the productivity outcomes differ markedly in the three periods. Consistent with … are more likely to enter and less likely to exit export markets. The reverse also occurs: entrants to export markets …

This paper explores how reductions in tariffs on imported inputs and final goods affect firm productivity by exploiting … construct firm-level input and output tariffs. Careful examination of the extent of firm engagement in processing trade and in … importantly, unlike previous findings, reductions in output tariffs have a greater effect on productivity improvement compared …

performance. The magnitude of the effect is large: a one percent increase in spending on technology increases exports by 30 … spending on technology imported from leaders increases exports by 176 percent, whereas a one percent increase in spending on … technology imported from non-leaders increases exports by about 28 percent. -- Technology Choice ; Exporting ; Productivity …