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Do better trade logistics reduce trade costs, raising a country´s exports? Yes, but the magnitude of the effectdepends on country size. Applying a new gravity model to a comprehensive logistics index, we …nd that anaverage-sized country would raise exports by about 46% after a one-standard...
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degree of pass-through of exchange rate fluctuations in the pricing of 70 export items. The model is estimated using panel … data on export unit values. Parameter estimation relies on GMM first difference, fixed effects, LAD, OLS first difference …
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This paper investigates the impact of energy policies on the export performance of firms. There has been a long policy …-level data from three countries with similar industry structure but different energy policies: Germany, Switzerland, and Austria …, subsidies and demand stimulation) for their firm operation and link data on the adoption and development of new energy …
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export market sales. As a result, exporting firms have a higher payoff from R&D investment, invest in R&D more frequently … differ in their export market exposure. Simulating the introduction of trade tariffs we find a substantial reduction in firms …
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In this paper we analyse the relationship between export and innovation activities of German service sector companies … Schumpeterian hypothesis of export activities being mainly driven by innovation activities. Factor endowment theories are only … partially supported. While human capital significantly improves export performance, labour costs hamper it only in selected …
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Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two dimensions: international activity and technology choice. We consider domestic and exporting firms and measure technology choice by firms' actual use of advanced information technology...
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evidence of state dependence in the current export status of firms. Unobserved permanent firm heterogeneity ("spurious state …
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domestic market, better performers engage in export activities, and the top firms establish foreign subsidiaries. Using German …
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sourcing of inputs. Using firm-level data from Germany in 2009, which include mainly small and medium-sized firms, the …
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manufacturing and services. Using firm-level data from the manufacturing and service sector in Germany and a broad range of ICT …
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