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firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
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firm will export or import. Foreign ownership has a large positive impact on the likelihood to engage in direct trade but a … negative effect on the likelihood to trade through intermediaries; the effects vary across upper and lower middle income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095644
This paper documents the relationship between firm survival and three types of international trade activities - exports …, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from Germany, one of the …
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This paper contributes to the literature on international firm activities and firm performance by providing the first evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany...
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Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...
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In empirical studies it often happens that some variables for some units are far away from the other observations in the sample. These extreme observations, or outliers, often have a large impact on the results of statistical analyses - conclusions based on a sample with and without these units...
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This paper documents for the first time the relationship between profitability and three types of international trade … activities - exports, imports and two-way trade. It uses unique new representative data for manufacturing enterprises from … statistically significant and economically large effects of trade activities on profits. This demonstrates that any productivity …
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The literature on international trade and firm performance grows exponentially. This paper attempts to summarize what … published papers using data for firms from manufacturing or services industries to study the links between international trade …
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This paper makes three contributions. (1) It summarizes in tabular form a recent literature made of 36 micro-econometric studies for 16 different countries on the relationship between export destination and firm performance. (2) It reports estimates of the productivity premium of German firms...
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. (3) It links these findings to the recent literature from the new new trade theory on international activities of …
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