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This paper examines whether exporting activity matters for firm's price cost margins. The recent literature on exporting and productivity shows that exporters on average are more efficient than nonexporters. If that is the case we may also expect them to have different mark-ups. We investigate...
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tariff reductions had a positive and significant effect on the exit rate of manufacturing firms. The estimated impact of the … tariff cuts was an increase in the exit rate of 0.7 to 2.0 percentage points for the most affected industries over the 1988 … exit of least efficient firms, thereby contributing to productivity growth …
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
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From 1980-2009 the Polish economy experienced structural dislocation. The growth and success of the Solidarity movement represented the shift in manufacturing from Soviet bloc trade to membership in the European Union. This paper examines four independent metrics that measure the changing...
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Much of international trade today happens through Global Value Chains (GVCs) wherein companies restructure and relocate their operations across geographies to leverage locational advantages and realize greater returns and efficiency in their production processes. Within these GVCs, there are...
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, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor …
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, where the latter is estimated alternatively as labor productivity and as exports. FDI notably increases both labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063275