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Financial health, exports, and firm survival: A comparison of British and French firms
Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
participation in the export market. …
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Risk tolerance and entrepreneurship
Hvide, Hans K; Panos, Georgios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
A tradition from Knight (1921) argues that more risk tolerant individuals are more likely to become entrepreneurs, but perform worse. We test these predictions with two risk tolerance proxies: stock market participation and personal leverage. Using investment data for 400,000 individuals, we...
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How Trade Credits Foster International Trade
Eck, Katharina; Engemann, Martina; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Internationally active firms rely intensively on trade credits even though they are considered particularly expensive. This phenomenon has been little explored so far. Our theoretical analysis shows that trade credits can alleviate financial constraints arising from asymmetric information...
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Determinants of Korean Trade Flows and their Geographical Destination
Giorgianni, Lorenzo; Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
aggregate export and import equations. In particular, it considers different choices for scale and price variables, and assesses … provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …
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'Locomotive' and Other Channels of Transmission under Flexible Exchange Rates
Braga de Macedo, Jorge - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1987
. The starting point is the traditional channel through exports and imports known as the "locomotive". The intertemporal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005498185
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The implications of natural resource exports for non-resource trade
Harding, Torfinn; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Foreign exchange windfalls such as those from natural resource revenues change non-resource exports, imports, and the … increase imports by 25 cents, implying a negligible effect on foreign saving. The negative per dollar impact on exports is … that the response to a dollar of resource revenue is, approximately, to decrease non-resource exports by 75 cents and …
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Concording EU Trade and Production Data over Time
Bernard, Andrew B.; van Beveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
product codes over time results in less product adding and dropping at continuing firms in the Belgian export and production …
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The Market for Cars in the Enlarged European Community
Smith, Alasdair - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
restrictions on exports of Japanese cars to Community markets are modeled as having an anti-competitive effect. The model is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661483
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Does the New Economy Need New Governance? Ownership, Knowledge and Performance
Audretsch, David B; Lehmann, Erik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
We study the implications of ownership and its induced incentives on firm performance in the ‘New Economy’. Instead of traditional performance we use firm survival on the stock market as the performance indicator. Using a unique data set of all 341 firms listed on the Neuer Markt, the German...
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Surviving the crisis: Foreign multinationals vs domestic firms in Ireland
Godart, Olivier; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Starting from the observation that all firms in Ireland (foreign and domestic in manufacturing and services industries) were hit by the crisis, the paper asks whether there is a difference in the behaviour of foreign and domestic firms. One hypothesis is that foreign multinationals are less...
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