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Exporters' performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may … base their future transaction decision on the information revealed by exporters' past performance in other countries …. Similarly, exporters acquire valuable information on foreign consumer tastes, product standards, or customs administration that …
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In this paper, the effect of proximity to multinational exporters on the creation of new export linkages (the extensive … regarding export experience among exporters. … begin exporting new varieties to new markets is shown to respond positively to the export activity of neighboring foreign …
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-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the … Heckman selection model to estimate the probability of exporting (export propensity) and the share of total sales that are … exported (export intensity) by Ecuadorian firms. They develop a baseline model with 12 independent variables divided into three …
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The authors show that exported products exit the US market sooner if they violate the Heckscher-Ohlin notion of comparative advantage. Crucially, this pattern is stronger when exporting country has a well-developed banking system, measured by a high ratio of bank credit over the GDP. Banks thus...
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that are constraining exporters in subsequent phases of the export cycle. …This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export … growth through "discovery" of new products and growth during post-discovery phases of the export product cycle …
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export destinations and find that exporting to richer countries leads firms to charge more for outputs and pay higher prices …
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African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … correlated with export intensity at the firm level, and both embody strong scale effects. Technological factors, such as new … vintage capital and Internet access, which improve production efficiency and lower export costs, show strong effects on the …
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This paper analyzes the incidence and extent to which domestic violence and physical harassment on public/private buses is underreported in Kerala, India, using the list randomization technique. The results indicate that the level of underreporting is over nine percentage points for domestic...
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nations, but then typically focuses only on transport costs. Although communication costs figure prominently in intuitive … examine whether this neglect matters, and whether the inclusion of the magnitude and variation of communication costs across … communication costs are the per-minute country-to-country calling prices charged in the importing and exporting countries. The use …
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The paper reviews the literature on the characteristics and impact of opinion leaders on the diffusion of new knowledge, concluding that there is no clear evidence on whether opinion leaders are more effective if they are similar in socioeconomic attributes to the other farmers rather than...
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