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industrialised countries. Consequently, real exchange rate changes have an impact on the commodity structure of exports. …
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This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of post-merger efficiency improvements to reveal a new margin of adjustment along the product dimension. We analyze horizontal mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic...
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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...
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This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of post-merger efficiency improvements to reveal a new margin of adjustment along the product dimension. We analyze horizontal mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278534
Received wisdom suggests that most exporters sell the majority of their output domestically. In this paper, however, we show that the distribution of export intensity not only varies substantially across countries, but in a large number of cases is also bimodal, displaying what we refer to as...
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new exporters experienced a surge in productivity in the initial year of exports the effect dissipates as soon as the …Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between export- ing and productivity this paper … perfirming firms self-selecting into exports and multinational production, exporting (multina- tional production) further …
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Following along the lines of a growing literature on the causal link between exporting and productivity this paper … addition to good firms self-selecting into exports and multinational production exporting (multinational production) further … conclusive evidence of learning-by-exporting. Namely, although new exporters experienced a surge in productivity in the initial …
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This paper summarizes recent advances in the empirical research on firms' learning from trade participation and the role of finance in both starting to trade, surviving in export markets as well as expanding along the intensive and extensive trade margins. It highlights the increased importance...
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of exports to firm and market characteristics, and equality of distributions of margins of exports between new and … differences between these firms that cannot be attributed to the differences in total factor productivity. This paper contributes … exports between new and incumbent exporters. …
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This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between exports, and in particular export diversity, and … is exported, but also important is what is exported. Regions with less specialization and more diversified exports … generally experienced higher economic growth rates and contributed much more to overall exports from South Africa. We also find …
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