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Defever, Fabrice; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario - 2021

In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...

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Productivity and the Decision to Import and Export : Theory and Evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki - 2008

This paper develops an open economy model with heterogeneous final goods producers who simultaneously choose whether to export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect aggregate productivity, resource allocation, and...

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How Firms Export : Processing vs. Ordinary Trade with Financial Frictions

Manova, Kalina - 2016

The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing imported inputs for re-exporting. We examine how financial frictions affect companies' choice between processing and ordinary trade –...

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Managing Trade : Evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas - 2019

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First, better...

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Salience in Retailing : Vertical Restraints on Internet Sales

Helfrich, Magdalena - 2017

overvalues a product attribute - quality or price - that stands out in a particular choice situation. In a highly competitive low-price … environment like on an online platform, consumers focus more on price rather than quality. Especially if the market power of local … (physical) retailers is low, price tends to be salient also in the local store, which is unfavorable for the high …

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What Explains Germany's Rebounding Export Market Share?

Danninger, Stephan; Joutz, Frederick L. - 2021

Germany's export market share increased since 2000, while most industrial countries experienced declines. This study explores four explanations and evaluates their empirical contributions: (i) improved cost competitiveness, (ii) ties to fast growing trading partners, (iii) increased demand for...

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Private Labels and International Trade : Trading Variety for Volume

Blanchard, Emily J. - 2013

This paper explores the role of pooled-producer, e.g. private label, trade intermediation in shaping the range and diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (‘brand equity'), whereas trade through an intermediary can take two forms - either a...

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The Diffusion of Knowledge Via Managers' Mobility

Mion, Giordano - 2017

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge the manager has acquired and successfully diffused...

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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices : Theory and Evidence from China

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao - 2021

choice of lower-quality products dominates the price distortion effect resulting from credit constraints. However, a …

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Decomposing China's Export Growth into Extensive Margin, Export Quality and Quantity Effects

Gao, Yue; Whalley, John; Ren, Yonglei - 2021

growth show different trends. The contributions of the extensive margin and price changes are decreasing, but quantity shows …-2010, with a strategy of lowering price and promoting sales in 2009 when facing a slump in export markets; resuming price …

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