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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies
Pflüger, Michael P.; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005103278
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
average productivity of firms in the market, thereby implying lower consumer prices and higher welfare. In an open economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805630
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884140
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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884325
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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
quality played an important role in raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353426
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Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth
Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … distribution of exports are positively correlated with changes in total factor productivity. Our results suggest that plants face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703434
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The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats
Voicu, Alexandru; Calderon-Madrid, Angel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233776
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959555
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777139