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The Location of U.S. States' Overseas Office
Cassey, Andrew J. - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2009
(2005) so oces facilitate exports by reducing the transaction cost of selling abroad. From theory, states operate an office … controlling for aggregate characteristics, I estimate the impact of exports on the probability of an office existing. In addition …, I find the average state savings from an office is 0.005%--0.009% of exports with a cut-off threshold of $1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004991793
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State Trade Missions
Cassey, Andrew J. - School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University - 2010
potentially a form of public investment in export promotion. I create a theory of public investment by introducing government to a … relationship between missions and exports by destination. I create a data set on trade missions and match it with state export data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646298
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The Textiles and Garments Sector: Moving Up the Value Chain
Hamid, Naved; Nabi, Ijaz; Zafar, Rafia - In: Lahore Journal of Economics 19 (2014) Special Edition, pp. 283-306
The textiles and garments (T&G) sector accounts for almost 50% of Pakistan’s exports and is the largest component of …’s exports. In addition, garments manufacturing is the least energy and capital intensive industrial activity and thus resonates …. This paper focuses on the following themes: First, structural changes and trends in T&G exports; second, the associated …
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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A Firm-level Analysis
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297328
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Small and medium-sized enterprises in Nepal: Examining constraints on exporting
Kharel, Paras; Dahal, Kshitiz - 2020
Even as a number of developing countries have been able to reap the export opportunities presented by the rise of global value chains (GVCs), Nepal's export performance remains dismal. This paper examines the challenges and constraints faced by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610061
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Small and medium-sized enterprises in Nepal : examining constraints on exporting
Kharel, Paras; Dahal, Kshitiz - 2020
Even as a number of developing countries have been able to reap the export opportunities presented by the rise of global value chains (GVCs), Nepal's export performance remains dismal. This paper examines the challenges and constraints faced by manufacturing small and medium-sized enterprises...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012259330
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The dynamic impact of exporting on firm R&D investment
Maican, Florín G.; Orth, Matilda; Roberts, Mark J.; … - 2020
Economic theory predicts that outsourcing public services to private firms will reduce costs, but the effect on quality is ambiguous. We explore quality differences between publicly and privately owned ambulances in a setting where patients are as good as randomly assigned to ambulances of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296887
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Export Behavior and Firm Productivity in German Manufacturing: A Firm-level Analysis
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097610
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Export Behavior and Firm productivity in German Manufacturing. A Firm-Level Analysis
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Hussinger, Katrin - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2003
This paper analyses the relationship between firm productivity and export behavior in German manufacturing firms. We examine whether productivity increases the probability of exporting, and assert that there is a causal relationship from high productivity to entering foreign markets, as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738683
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Exports and Firm-Level Efficiency in African Manufacturing.
Bigsten, A.; Collier, P.; Dercon, S. - HEC Montréal (École des Hautes Études Commerciales) - 2000
In this paper, we use firm-level panel data for the manufacturing sector in four African countries, to estimate the effect of exporting on efficiency. Measures of firm-level efficiency using stochastic production frontier models are constructed for the period 1992 to 1995.
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