Data import and export tools of the biomedical data warehouse system i2b2 (https://www.i2b2.org/) are restricted to its star schema and thus provide little flexibility. This is especially disadvantageous for external analysis with statistic software packages like SPSS or R. Further, data exports are limited to items previously selected within the query tool of i2b2. We present a tool for the ca...

This paper, considering revenue and cost exposure channels, investigates the effects of exchange rate behaviour on fixed capital investment in Mexican manufacturing sector over 1994-2002. We find that i) currency depreciation has a positive (negative) effect on fixed investment through the export (import) channel; ii) exchange rate volatility impacts mostly export oriented sectors; iii) the sen...

Feminist political economy has illuminated the gendered dimensions of globalisation production. Whilst this literature provides essential insights on exploitation in export-oriented...

The paper identifies and analyses the factors that influenced the export performance of firms in the post-liberalization era of the Indian economy. The study is based on primary data collected from fifty-one firms located in the national capital region. Entrepreneurial characteristics, historical data of firms, and other firm-specific factors such as size of operation, export intensity, interna...

Information technology (IT) allows for large-scale data collection and data analysis, e.g. through logs of user behavior and online surveys. While the issue of structured access to data is extremely important, previous research has not sufficiently emphasized design of data export for research purposes. If researchers are to make their data accessible, they must be empowered to export data in a...

The central objective of our paper is to empirically examine the relationship between the ownership structure of firms and their export performance. To do so, we use data from Korea, a classic example of successful export-oriented industrialization. While a large and growing empirical literature investigates the relationship between the ownership structure and overall performance of firms, ther...

Exports have a vital role in driving economic growth. For number of countries including Ethiopia, international trade, especially exports has critical namely, an impetus for the national economy. Successively, past several years’ Ethiopia’s government used export promotion policies and approaches to increase trades generate export-driven development by establishing comprehensively possible sect...