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Product and Process Productivity: Implications for quality choice and conditional exporter premia
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In this article, the authors develop a model of international trade with two dimensions of heterogeneity, process productivity and product productivity, and conduct systematic tests of these predictions using manufacturing establishment data for India, the U.S., Chile, and Colombia, and find strong support for the model.About:
This article is published in Journal of International Economics.The article was published on 2013-09-01. It has received 224 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Partial productivity & Productivity.read more
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Trade Liberalization, Exports, and Technology Upgrading: Evidence on the Impact of MERCOSUR on Argentinian Firms
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the impact of a regional free trade agreement, MERCOSUR, on technology upgrading by Argentinean firms and showed that the increase in revenues produced by trade integration can induce exporters to upgrade technology.
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Multi-product firms at home and away: Cost- versus quality-based competence
Carsten Eckel,Carsten Eckel,Leonardo Iacovone,Beata Smarzynska Javorcik,Beata Smarzynska Javorcik,J. Peter Neary,J. Peter Neary +6 more
TL;DR: The authors developed a new model of multi-product firms which invest to improve the perceived quality of both their individual products and their brand, and Mexican data provide robust confirmation of the model's key prediction: firms in differentiated-good sectors exhibit quality-based competence (prices fall with distance from core competence), but export sales of firms in non-differentiated good sectors exhibit the opposite pattern.
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Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
TL;DR: The authors conducted a randomized experiment that generates exogenous variation in the access to foreign markets for rug producers in Egypt and found evidence of learning-by-exporting whereby exporting improves technical efficiency.
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Input-trade liberalization, export prices and quality upgrading
Maria Bas,Vanessa Strauss-Kahn +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the impact of input trade liberalization on imported input and exported product prices using Chinese transaction data for 2000-2006 and found that firms exploit the input tariff cuts to access high-quality inputs in order to quality-upgrade their exports.
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Why do within-firm–product export prices differ across markets? Evidence from Hungary
TL;DR: This article analyzed the relationship between distance and export unit values using firm-product-destination data from Hungarian manufacturing and found that doubling distance is associated with about 7.5 per cent increase in the average product-level price, from which five percentage points can be attributed to within-firm-product variation.
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Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
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The Impact of Trade on Intra-Industry Reallocations and Aggregate Industry Productivity
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