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In this paper, we study how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … relies on a French firm-level database that combines balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over … the period 1995-2009. More specifically, we show that export performance is affected by both bilateral and multilateral …
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We investigate how the export performance of firms in China is influenced by credit constraints. Using panel data from … over private domestic firms as their export performance is systematically greater in sectors with higher levels of …
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) where we show that previous export of both goods and services is an important determinant of present exports of services. …
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findings shed new light on the micro determinants of firms’ choice to import capital goods. Baseline estimation results show …
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-related occupations are those enhancing export by the largest margin. Business network effect is particularly important for culturally …
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do this, firstly, as import values are reported CIF (cost, insurance and freight) while exports are reported FOB (free on … board), transport and insurance rates have to be estimated and removed from import values. We regress the observed CIF …
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goes on to export the good. Despite the numerous appearances of these firms in recent theoretical models, there has been no …
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Foreign technology transfers play a key role in economic growth. This paper investigates the effects of input-trade liberalization on firms’ decision to upgrade foreign technology embodied in imported capital goods. We develop a theoretical model of endogenous technology adoption,...
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We consider the impact of low-wage countries’ competition on the quality content of high-wage countries’ exports. We develop a new method that uses firm-level data to measure quality changes in sectoral exports. Over 1995-2005, we measure a 11% increase in the mean quality of France’s...
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GeoDist makes available the exhaustive set of gravity variables used in Mayer and Zignago (2005). GeoDist provides several geographical variables, in particular bilateral distances measured using citylevel data to assess the geographic distribution of population inside each nation. We have...
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