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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. The authors use a rich and recent dataset for Turkish manufacturing firms for the...
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This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed firm-level data from Hungary in 1995-2003. We estimate production functions structurally to obtain firm-year-level productivity and markup estimates. We find that importing...
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of Moments. Our results indicate evidence both that the most efficient firms self-select for entry into the export market … and that learning has an impact on the export market. From a policy perspective, this evidence of learning by exporting …
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While many studies explain the correlation between firm-level productivity and export status entirely by better firms … to new clients. We show that small firms with a lot of outstanding trade credit expand sales the most following export … export market entry. …
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In this paper we analyze changes in the export mix of Chilean firms, looking particularly at differences between large … econometric results, which look at the impact of export product churning on firm performance, are heterogeneous by type of change … in export mix and by firm size. In general, export mix changes are associated with improvements on productivity, although …
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Export growth requires not only entry into new markets, but also the survival of trade flows. This paper analyses the … role of initial product export share and product differentiation in Estonian manufacturing export survival. For this … purpose, detailed firm-product-destination level export data is used from 1995-2011. The data show that adding and dropping …
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manufacturing firms. First, there is a negative correlation between firms' productivity and their export share to low …-income destinations. Second, there is a negative correlation between firms' innovation activity and their export share to low …
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-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields an extra TFP growth that emerges since a firm's first year of exporting but … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity. …
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This paper analyzes the reallocation effects generated by dynamics of exporting firms adopting DOPD productivity decomposition. The authors select the exporting firm samples from the dataset of Annual Surveys of Industrial Production for the period from 2005 to 2009. The study indicates that the...
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he export participation of SMEs in the Swedish computer and business service industries has increased rapidly over the … last decade. Despite this, export participation rates-including those of micro enterprises-remained low at 13 per cent in … of micro enterprises, this study investigates the determinants of the export participation of Swedish SMEs in the …
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