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Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
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This paper decomposes the growth of China’s export into three parts: growth in the extensive margin, increased quantity … and increased prices; we perform a series of empirical analyses using China’s export data at HS-6 digit to analyze the … characteristics of China’s export growth. From 1995 to 2010, China’s export growth was mainly driven by quantity growth with a …
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This paper provides evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of both large and small-medium sized Italian firms. By using detailed qualitative and quantitative information we first identify those firms engaged in international activities...
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This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …
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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. We use a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of quality...
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Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic shocks helps to facilitate local labor market adjustment to shifting regional economic conditions. We examine the role that immigration may have played in enabling U.S. commuting...
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This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
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This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …
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decline in import growth. We then construct measures of export exposure to import tariffs by linking tariffs paid by importing …
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We measure export participation rates in the U.S. manufacturing sector using a new administrative dataset and compare … firm level export participation rates are near 40 percent in the administrative data, almost twice as high as in the CM … reconsidering the conventional wisdom that around 20 percent of manufacturing firms export …
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