This study compares the Zambian and NICs manufacturing finance models to identify their similarities and differences with a view to enhance Zambia's manufacturing finance and consequently manufacturing development. It applies structural equation modelling on a merged dataset and contrasts four...

The emergence of global value chains (GVCs) in recent years has underlined the increasing reliance of manufacturing industries on services. Manufacturing firms have intensively used service inputs, performed in-house services activities, and sold services embedded in, or bundled with goods....

Do technologies embedded in imports boost domestic productivity? This paper investigates empirically the role of complementarities between absorptive capacity and imports. Different import categories are combined with different proxies for absorptive capacity. The database covers 18...

Trade shocks generated by trade policy reform are important for firm productivity. In particular, export opportunities and access to imported intermediate inputs and capital goods can encourage firms to simultaneously export and invest. Using a panel dataset for manufacturing firms in Ghana,...

This study introduces a two-dimensional matrix analysis method that utilizes revealed comparative advantage and revealed comparative disadvantage indices. It aims to clarify the impact of trade remedy measures on beneficiary industries' performance. We compare the effects of these measures...

Die Studie untersucht die technologische Leistungsfähigkeit Deutschlands im internationalen Vergleich anhand von Daten zur sektoralen Wertschöpfung sowie mittels Daten zum Handel mit Industriegütern. Sie zeigt, dass die deutsche Wirtschaft weiterhin stark auf die Produzenten hochwertiger...

Decarbonization and security are worthy goals, but it would be a mistake to think that protection and subsidization of domestic manufacturing reduce their cost. Trade restrictions decrease economic efficiency. Creating manufacturing jobs may sound like a benefit, but in advanced countries it...

The use of digital technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, or smart devices can be expected to go hand in hand with higher productivity and lower trade costs, and, therefore, to be positively related to export activities. This paper uses firm level data for manufacturing enterprises...

Extensive economic literature has covered the effect of a natural resource boom on the performance of the manufacturing sector. Specifically, the Dutch Disease hypothesis establishes that increases in commodity prices should lead to a decrease in manufacturing exports, due to significant inflows...

Viet Nam has reached more than 20 years since the first FDI project. This study aims to examine export spillovers from FDI in the manufacturing industry and measure the effects of country characteristics and linkages between FDI enterprises and domestic firms on the export performance of the...

Studies on the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on the export of the manufacturing industry, as disaggregated into the low-, medium-, and high-technology intensity, were lacking. However, the trade impact of ICT is mixed and relies on countries' development and adoption...

This paper attempts to study to what extent Tunisian industrial exports have been resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. For this purpose, we tested for structural breaks using the Bai-Perron test and monthly data on industrial exports from January 2014 to December 2022. Using the...

We use panel data for listed firms from China for 2013-2021 to examine the association between their export earnings and trade finance, particularly those receiving trade loans. Results show that a percent increase in trade finance loan is associated with 0.067-0.083 percent increase in export...

Japan exports sophisticated capital goods. Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), Japanese companies have offshored the production of lower-end goods and parts and components to Asian countries. Because of this, several researchers argued that a weaker yen no longer stimulates machinery...

Many manufacturing firms face considerable difficulties in building export capacity and selling their products in international markets. These firms often struggle with unpredictable cost changes, logistical problems along the supply chain, and rising labor expenses that could threaten the...

Using time series data from 1945 to 2023, this paper develops stylized facts to trace the historical origins of the Philippines' narrow economic base. Econometric models are then estimated to analyze the drivers and benefits of economic diversification in the Philippines. The empirical results...

Digital import trade is of great practical significance for enhancing the export performance of enterprises and preventing external shocks. This paper empirically examines the impact and mechanism of industrial robot imports on Chinese firms' export performance based on Chinese microenterprise...

After China's accession to WTO in 2001, it has substantially reduced its own import tariffs, and since then the participation of China’s various industries in global value chains have all deepened steadily(GVC afterward). The traditional wisdom about import tariff is that proper levels of...

This study focuses on examines range of Ethiopian economic liberalization and its contribution to privatized manufacturing firms in relation to export performance. To achieve these objectives, both primary and secondary data used. Cross-sectional data collected from 114 fully privatized...

Based on the matching data in the China Customs, Chinese industrial enterprises, and patent databases, this study uses the propensity score matching method (PSM) and the double difference model (DID) to study the impact of Internet use on enterprise innovation. The results show that Internet use...

This report is organized into six chapters. The first chapter provides an introduction and presents a brief situation analysis of current research and development and manufacturing capacities in the region based on detailed desk review. The second chapter describes the importance of coordination...

Objective: The article aims to investigate the impact of anti-crisis activities undertaken by the Polish exporting firms on their export sales during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research Design & Methods: In our study, we used a quantitative research design. We conducted the survey on the sample of...