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California's Contributions To The U.S. Export Profile, Denise M. Lucy, Françoise Lepage, Jayati Ghosh

Denise Lucy

Small to medium sized enterprises (SME) are the engine of the United States economy. And the world’s emerging economies offer great opportunities to expand. However, only 1% of U.S. SMEs engage in the international marketplace. Efforts at the national level to expand all U.S. exports, and especially those of SMEs, depend upon each state in the union to participate in this venture. As a key contributor to the U.S. economy, California’s and its vast majority of SMEs, play a key role in U.S. export profile. This paper describes the export landscape of the top five U.S. states, focusing on California’s …

The Effects Of Uncertainty Dynamics On Exports, Imports And Productivity Growth, Renuka Mahadevan, Sandy Suardi

Sandy Suardi

This paper investigates the trade-productivity growth relationship by incorporating uncertainty/volatility in a VECM-GARCH model. Using Singapore as a case study, we find evidence supporting the crucial role of imports as a beneficial conduit for growth in both total factor productivity (TFP) and labour productivity even after controlling for economic uncertainty in the model. Differences in the causality test results for TFP, labour productivity and trade growth between models with and without uncertainty show the importance of incorporating uncertainty in drawing robust inferences about their causal relationships. The findings that volatility in productivity growth impedes import growth while volatility in export …

An Empirical Note On Regionalization And Globalization, Syed H. Akhter, Colleen Beno

Syed H. Akhter

Purpose – Is it regionalization or globalization that more accurately depicts the state of the global economy? Exports and foreign direct investments (FDI) data are analyzed with the aim of answering the question and determining how intra- and inter-regional integration has changed over time.

Design/methodology/approach – To address the research questions, this paper covers the following. First, it takes a longitudinal perspective in examining the changes taking place in exports and FDI at the regional level. Second, it draws strategic business and marketing implications of this development.

Findings – The results show a trend toward regionalization in the Quad (North …

Mapping Australia's Wine Exporters, D. K. Aylward

David K. Aylward

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Developing A Multidimensional Instrument To Measure Psychic Distance Stimuli, Douglas Dow, Amal Karunaratna

Douglas Dow

This paper develops and tests a range of potential psychic distance stimuli including differences in culture, language, religion, education, and political systems. Using trade flows amongst a set of 38 nations as the dependent variable, it is shown that, while the majority of the proposed indicators prove to be statistically significant predictors of trade flows, the most common psychic distance surrogate: a composite measure of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions, is not significant.

Adaptation And Performance In Foreign Markets: Evidence Of Systematic Under-Adaptation, Douglas Dow

Douglas Dow

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The Adaptation Of Host Market Positioning Strategies: Empirical Evidence On Australian Exporters, Douglas Dow

Douglas Dow

No abstract provided.