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Blessing or Curse? Domestic Plants' Survival and Employment Prospects After Foreign Acquisition

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, positive or negative, on the survival prospects and employment growth of that plant. The empirical analysis uses data from the … that the incidence of take-over reduces employment growth, in particular for unskilled labour. Both survival and employment …

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Product and Process Innovation and Firms’ decision to Export

Vanbeveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We analyze the relationship between firm-level innovation activities and firms’ propensity to start exporting for firms in a small open economy. We measure innovation by innovative effort (R&D) as well as by innovative output (product and process innovation). After carefully correcting for...

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The Effect of Ethnic Violence on an Export-Oriented Industry

Ksoll, Christopher; Macchiavello, Rocco; Morjaria, Ameet - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper investigates the effects of ethnic violence on export-oriented firms and their workers. Following the disputed 2007 Kenyan presidential election, export volumes of flower firms affected by the ensuing violence dropped by 38 percent and worker absence exceeded 50 percent. Large firms...

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Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...

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Investment Liberalization and International Trade

Amiti, Mary; Wakelin, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper estimates the cross-price elasticity of exports with respect to investment costs for bilateral relations … between 36 countries. We show that the effect of reducing foreign direct investment costs on exports depends on country … and trade costs are low, investment liberalization stimulates exports, whereas when countries are similar in terms of …

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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

provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …

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Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial

Atkin, David; Khandelwal, Amit; Osman, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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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What's Holding Back EU Exports to China?

Evenett, Simon J; Fritz, Johannes; Wermelinger, Martin - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

share of each country’s exports going to China from 2000 to 2010. China’s growing share of world spending is found to be the …

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Quality, Trade, and Exchange Rate Pass-Through

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the heterogeneous response of exporters to real exchange rate fluctuations due to product quality. We model theoretically the effects of real exchange rate changes on the optimal price and quantity responses of firms that export multiple products with heterogeneous levels...

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The Unobserved Heterogeneity Distribution in Duration Analysis

Abbring, Jaap H; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In a large class of hazard models with proportional unobserved heterogeneity, the distribution of the heterogeneity among survivors converges to a gamma distribution. This convergence is often rapid. We derive this result as a general result for exponential mixtures and explore its implications...

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