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Exporting, Linkages and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Pisu, Mauro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs domestic market...

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Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Yu, Zhihong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

more pronounced amongst profit-making firms, firms in capital intensive industries and those with previous exporting …

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Development of Ownership Structure and its Effect on Performance: Czech Firms from Mass Privatisation

Kocenda, Evzen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper works with a broad data sample of Czech voucher-privatized firms during 1996-99. It analyses the development of ownership structure and consequently its effect on a firm's performance Ownership concentration had been quite high in 1996 and steadily increased. The single largest owner...

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Technology Transfer and Spillovers in International Joint Ventures

Müller, Thomas; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This paper analyzes the effects of a potential spillover on technology transfer of a multinational enterprise and on the host country policy. In particular, we examine how both parties’ incentives can be controlled through the ownership structure in an international joint venture. In contrast...

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Financial Constraints in China: Firm-Level Evidence

Poncet, Sandra; Steingress, Walter; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

State-owned firms and foreign-owned firms in China are not; Secondly, the geographical and sectoral presence of foreign … restructuring of the state-owned sector and further liberalization of foreign capital inflows in China can help to circumvent …

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Getting Ready: Preparation for Exporting

Iacovone, Leonardo; Javorcik, Beata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

for their domestic sales of this variety. Consistently with the hypothesis of quality upgrading before exporting, we find …

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Carry-Along Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Blanchard, Emily; van Beveren, Ilke; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export data at the firm-product level, we find that the...

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Grant Support and Exporting Activity

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data …. Our results suggest that if grants are large enough they can encourage already exporting firms to compete more effectively … on the international market. However, there is little evidence that grants encourage non-exporters to start exporting. …

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Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant Level Data

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a …

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...

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