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The comovement between exports and productivity observed in many countries suggests a direct link between these two … suggest that exports, productivity and the terms of trade move together in the long run in all countries except the United …
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damaging because firms respond by cutting exports disproportionately. This may explain why countries, such as those in the … former Soviet Union, which have faced serious supply bottlenecks have failed to develop exports while the economies of …
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provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …
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This paper investigates the determinants of trends in Spain's industrial exports to other Community countries by using …
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. The starting point is the traditional channel through exports and imports known as the "locomotive". The intertemporal …
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We conduct a randomized control trial that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt. Combined with detailed survey data, we causally identify the impact of exporting on firm performance. Treatment firms report 15-25 percent higher profits and...
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Foreign exchange windfalls such as those from natural resource revenues change non-resource exports, imports, and the … that the response to a dollar of resource revenue is, approximately, to decrease non-resource exports by 75 cents and … increase imports by 25 cents, implying a negligible effect on foreign saving. The negative per dollar impact on exports is …
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This paper provides evidence on the importance of reputation, intended as beliefs buyers hold about seller's reliability, in the context of the Kenyan rose export sector. A model of reputation and relational contracting is developed and tested. We show that 1) the value of the relationship...
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This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...
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serve it, and whether to do so through exports or foreign affiliate sales. We show that a firm may first test the foreign … market via exports, before engaging in foreign direct investment (FDI). To assess the evidence, we exploit a unique dataset … of firm-level exports and FDI in individual destination countries, covering all Belgian companies over the 1998 …
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