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Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked diversity among exporters is not reflected in their workforce composition regarding commonly observed worker skills or occupations. Using Brazilian linked employer-employee data,...
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We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for...
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in Spain to document the existence of a robust, within-firm negative causal relationship between demand-driven changes in … domestic sales and export flows. Spanish manufacturing firms whose domestic sales were reduced by more during the crisis … structurally estimated version of this model, we conclude that the firm-level responses to the slump in domestic demand in Spain …
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In this paper we use micro data on both trade and production for a sample of large Chinese manufacturing firms in the …
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We show that in successful episodes of export market entry, there are statistically and economically significant post-entry dynamics of quantities, but no post-entry dynamics of markups. This suggests that shifts in demand play an important role in successful entry, but that firms do not use...
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Many economic decisions involve a binary choice - for example, when consumers decide to purchase a good or when firms decide to enter a new market. In such settings, agents' choices often depend on imperfect expectations of the future payoffs from their decision (expectational error) as well as...
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As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are …
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I build a model of international trade with liquidity constraints. If firms must pay some entry cost in order to access foreign markets, and if they face liquidity constraints to finance these costs, only those firms that have sufficient liquidity are able to export. A set of firms could...
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matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese …
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Cyprus, Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain, ranging from roughly 0.5% (Ireland) to 43% (Greece) of 2011 output during the …
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