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explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
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This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two … mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to …), the theories suggest a skill-bias in export destinations: firms that export to high-income destinations hire more skills …
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a product, exporters with more destinations offer a wider range of export prices. Finally, firms that export more, that …This paper establishes six stylized facts about firms' export prices using detailed customs data on the universe of … Chinese trade flows. First, across firms selling a given product, exporters that charge higher prices earn greater revenues in …
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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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The home-market effect, first hypothesized by Linder (1961) and later formalized by Krugman (1980), is the idea that countries with larger demand for some products at home tend to have larger sales of the same products abroad. In this paper, we develop a simple test of the home-market effect...
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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export …
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This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial development on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we provide evidence that host-country financial development increases entry by multinational affiliates, while also decreasing affiliate sales in...
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Linkage is a multi-faceted policy decision that can be used by political jurisdictions to achieve a variety of objectives, and we find evidence that many economic, political, and strategic factors - ranging from geographic proximity to integrity of emissions reductions - influence the decision...
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Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid pro quo policy of exchanging market access for transfers...
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