Export wage premium for south Brazilian firms: Interaction between export, human capital, and export destination

Export Activity and Wage Dispersion: the Case of Swiss Firms

∞ Geneva School of Business Administration, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Rte de Drize 7, 1227 Geneva, Switzerland. Email : [email protected] ∗ Bar-Ilan University, Dept of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat-Gan, Israel. Emails: [email protected] and [email protected] + University of Geneva, Dept of Economics, Boulevard du Pont-d’Arve 40, 1211 Ge...

Why Some Firms Export

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from neighboring exporters, entry costs and government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are apt to reenter, and plants are like...

Firms export decisions

Collaboration and competition in export firms: The link between co-opetition and export innovation

1. Introduction Co-opetition (cooperation with competitors) has recently emerged and gained its popularity in the last several decades, emphasizing better usage of comparative advantage, value creation, and sharing R&D risks and costs (Dittrich and Duysters, 2007; Ritala, 2012). Extant literature on co-opetition provides evidence that this strategy can positively affect innovation and Generic s...

Export prices of U.S. firms

Using confidential firm-level data from the United States in 2002, we show that exporting firms charge prices for narrowly defined goods that differ substantially with the characteristics of firms and export markets. We control for selection into export markets using a three-stage estimator. We have three main results. First, we find that that highly productive and skillintensive firms charge h...