McCann, Fergal(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export status for a large panel of Irish manufacturing firms. Two-way traders and exporters-only are found to be ...
McCann, Fergal(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2009-11)
This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant productivity, with the major contribution lying in the identification of heterogeneous effects for firms with differing internationalisation status. The results ...
We estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit manufacturing industries, using FAME data on UK Companies, from 1994 to 2003. We extend the algorithm in Olley and Pakes (1996) to allow for a selection bias driven by the ...
Within a structural model we explicitly allow for the trade orientation of companies to estimate productivity dynamics within 4-digit UK manufacturing industries. We use the FAME data on UK companies over the period ...
We analyze the impact of volatility per se on real exports for a small open economy
concentrating on Irish trade with the United Kingdom and the United States. An
important element is that we take account of the time lag ...
Bredin, Donal; Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-10-12)
We analyse the impact of volatility per se on exports for a a small open economy concentrating on Irish trade with the UK and the US. An important element is that we take account of the time lag between
the trade decision ...