Import Churning and Export Performance of Multi-Product Firms

Worker Churning and Firms’ Wage Policies

If a random firm were to increase its wages, would that decrease the firm’s churning (“excessive” worker reallocation)? Although the trade-off between wage and churning costs has received attention in both the labour and human resource management literatures, there seems to be no evidence about the causal impact of wages upon churning. This paper seeks to fill that gap by considering detailed P...

Import protection and export performance : Their impact on economic growth

Multi-Product Firms and Trade Liberalization∗

This paper develops a general equilibrium model of international trade that features selection across firms, products and countries. Firms’export decisions depend on a combination of firm “productivity” and firm-product-country “consumer tastes”, both of which are stochastic and unknown prior to the payment of a sunk cost of entry. Trade liberalization induces endogenous reallocations of resour...

The Impact of Import and Export of Medium Technology Industries on Economic Growth of Iran

Technology spillover from trade channel is important. Absorbing foreign technology by the channel of importation and using the latent technology in those products create export development, increase the quality and quantity of manufactured goods, and modify management, technology improvements and production of goods with high added value; this might favorise optimal allocation of resources. Imp...

analyzing factors affecting export performance of manufacturing firms

this study aims to explore potential mutually beneficial malaysia-middle east partnership through seeking for factors affecting firm’s performance. a survey was conducted to analyze malaysian firms that have ventured into nations surrounding the persian gulf. both large-sized firms and smes are pursuing business opportunities in the region. the data was collected using highly structured survey ...