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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing

Bräuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2019

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with positive incentives for firms to invest in...

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The heterogeneous impacts of import competition on Mexican manufacturing plants

Blyde, Juan S.; Fentanes, Oscar - 2019

during this period, we find that the trade shock induced a decline in employment, sales, exports, and productivity …

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Import competition and firm productivity : evidence from German manufacturing

Braeuer, Richard; Mertens, Matthias; Slavtchev, Viktor - 2020

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm-level panel data from German manufacturing. We find that only import competition from high-income countries is associated with positive incentives for firms to invest in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012426234

Productivity effects of processing and ordinary export market entry: a time-varying treatments approach

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - 2021

China's policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and … economically and statistically significant positive causal effects of entering into export processing and ordinary export markets … of the productivity variable. We also find that export processors gain more when entering the industrialised North rather …

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Export Markets and Firm Productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Esaku, Stephen - 2020

In this paper, we analyze the significance of export market destinations for productivity growth in Sub-Saharan Africa … export markets are as a result of firm-level productivity growth suggesting that firms will sell products to additional … markets if their productivity level increases hence the changes in export markets are correlated with productivity growth …

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Import Penetration, Intermediate Inputs and Productivity : Evidence from Italian Firms

Altomonte, Carlo; Barattieri, Alessandro; Rungi, Armando - 2014

We test the impact of import penetration on the productivity of a sample of roughly 35,000 Italian manufacturing firms operating in the period 1996-2003, considering the impact on productivity of both import penetration in the same industry and import penetration in the up-stream industries. We...

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Service Liberalization and Manufacturing Productivity : Evidence from Chinese Manufacturing Firms

Findlay, Christopher; Liu, Runjuan; Tang, Yihong; Zhang, Yan - 2022

The productivity of manufacturing firms in China has increased tremendously after China’s WTO accession. Most of the existing research focuses on examining the contribution of input and output tariff reductions to the increasing productivity of Chinese manufacturing firms. However, an...

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Simultaneity and Heterogeneity in Import and Productivity : Case Study of Indonesian Manufacturing

Putra, Chandra; Narjoko, Dionisius Ardiyanto - 2022

We examine the impact of imported intermediates on plant productivity and the role of plant capability in explaining the heterogeneity of the impact. We use a survey database of medium-sized and large Indonesian manufacturing establishments from 2000 to 2015. Imported intermediates are presented...

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Assessing the Supply Chain Effect of Natural Disasters : Evidence from Chinese Manufacturers

World Trade Organization - 2021

This paper uses Chinese firm level data to detect the international propagation of adverse shocks triggered by the US hurricane season in 2005. We provide evidence that Chinese processing manufacturers with tight trade linkages to the United States reduced their intermediate imports from the...

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International Competition and Industrial Evolution : Evidence from the Impact of Chinese Competition on Mexican Maquiladoras

Utar, Hale; Torres-Ruiz, Luis B. - 2013

employing a plant-level data set that covers the universe of Mexican export processing plants (maquiladoras) from 1990 to 2006 … and relying on an instrumental variable strategy that exploits exogenous intensification of Chinese imports in the world …

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