This paper examines how trade liberalization affects the innovation incentives of firms, and what this implies for industry productivity. For...

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover...

This paper evaluates firms’ exporting responses to BRI and considers their heterogeneity in ownership types, product types, regional origin...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

China’s policy of encouraging export processing has been the topic of much discussion in the academic literature and policy debate. We use a...

Using a firm-level dataset, this article investigates the impact of trade liberalization on employment and wages in Vietnamese manufacturing...

Opportunities for well-paid employment for women are scarce in many African countries. Entrepreneurship is therefore one way in which women...

We investigate the export-enhancing effect of foreign workers at the firm level. We first develop a theoretical framework of heterogeneous...

We exploit employment data from 10,528 parishes across nineteenth century England and Wales and find that a one standard deviation increase in...

This paper studies the relationship between firm markups and importing intermediate inputs and exporting using detailed firm-level data from...

We ask whether production related subsidies have a role to play in explaining Chinese firms’ export performance. We, firstly, implement an...

We study the impact of access to finance on exports using Chinese firm level data. We distinguish two modes of external finance, namely bank...

Using information on a panel of multinational firms operating in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2005, we find that labour demand in domestic...

Global engagement of firms can take a variety of forms. We argue that there are considerable advantages of developing models that allow for a...

We use Japanese microdata to examine how financial market frictions affect foreign direct investment (FDI). The Japanese land price bubble and...

This paper investigates two sourcing strategies of firms, outsourcing and importing, and links these to innovation activities. We investigate...

This paper introduces the “German Management and Organizational Practices” (GMOP) Survey, which provides a larger-scale database on management...

In this paper we analyse the relationship between distance and f.o.b. export unit values using firm-product-destination data from Hungarian...

This paper considers the link between the local availability of services and a firm’s decision to become a multinational. This is a highly...

The attraction of foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be of particular importance for emerging economies because it represents a...