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Mapping the participation of ASEAN small- and mediumsized enterprises in global value chains
Lopez Gonzalez, Javier - 2017
enterprises (SMEs), which tend to employ the largest share of workers, struggling to benefit from the opportunities offered by the … evolving GVC landscape. This paper identifies how SMEs in ASEAN economies participate in GVCs by combining firm level data with … the Trade in Value Added (TiVA) database. SMEs in the region might face more constraints than large firms in sourcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695368
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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271259
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Structural reforms to boost growth and living standards in Argentina
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2018
Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823732
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Chapter 3. The Effects of Trade Policy
Goldberg, P.K.; Pavcnik, N. - 2016
The last two decades have witnessed a shift in the focus of international trade research from trade policy to other forms of trade frictions (eg, transportation, information and communication costs). Implicit in this development is the widespread view that trade policy no longer matters. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023457
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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael P.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103278
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The Impact of Firm Size and Market Size Asymmetries on National Mergers in a Three-Country Model
Santos-Pinto, Luís - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper studies the impact of firm and market size asymmetries on merger decisions. To do that I consider a model where a small and a large country compete in a third (world) market. Each of the two countries has two firms (with potentially different costs) that supply the domestic market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027131
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The Impact of Firm Size and Market Size Asymmetries on National Mergers in a Three-Country Model
Santos-Pinto, Luís - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2009
This paper studies the impact of firm and market size asymmetries on merger decisions. To do that I consider a model where a small and a large country compete in a third (world) market. Each of the two countries has two firms (with potentially different costs) that supply the domestic market and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518818
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Product diversification and export performance : a comparative study of developing Asian countries
Alongkorn Tanasritunyakul - In: Thailand and the world economy 40 (2022) 1, pp. 17-38
There has been renewed emphasis in the recent trade policy debate on the potential positive impact of diversification of the product composition on export expansion. However, the standard trade theory predicts that export success depends on pursuing comparative advantages rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348924
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The role of product deepening, emergence, and failure in export performance : a comparative study of developing Asian countries
Tanasritunyakul, Alongkorn - In: Thailand and the world economy 40 (2022) 2, pp. 73-101
This study explores the contribution of the deepening of existing products (intensive margin), the emergence of new products (extensive margin), and the demise of existing products (failure margin) to the export expansion of developing Asian countries in 1990-2017. Using data based on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013349190
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Trade, global value chains, and small and medium-sized enterprises in Thailand: A firm-level panel analysis
Korwatanasakul, Upalat - 2020
period 2004-2014. Our results show that small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have a lower degree of engagement in both … backward and forward GVC participation when compared with larger firms (non-SMEs). This study also finds that GVC participation … SME is associated with a lower degree of GVC participation, but GVC participation can help firms (both SMEs and large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012610025