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Productivity, Quality and Export Behavior (Revised version of: Firm-Export Intensity and Productivity, September 2011)

Crinò, Rosario; Epifani, Paolo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

We study, both theoretically and empirically, how export intensity (the ratio of exports to sales) is related to firm … strongly negatively correlated with export intensity to low-income destinations and uncorrelated with export intensity to high … plausible assumptions, our model predicts that the elasticity of export intensity to productivity is increasing in per capita …

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New Imported Inputs, New Domestic Products

Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

We study the effects of new imported inputs on the entry of new domestic products and their characteristics. To this purpose, we construct a novel, comprehensive and extremely detailed dataset, which contains product-level information on foreign trade and domestic production for 25 EU countries...

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Imported Inputs and Skill Upgrading

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011

This paper studies the effect of imported inputs on relative skilled labor demand. To this purpose, it uses firm-level data for 27 transition countries and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that importing inputs induces skill upgrading: according to a conservative estimate,...

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Employment Effects of Service Offshoring: Evidence from Matched Firms

Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2009

This paper studies the e¤ects of service o¤shoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a rich data set of Italian rms and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that service o¤shoring has no e¤ect on the level of employment but changes its...

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Preferences, Rent Destruction and Multilateral Liberalisation: The Building Block Effect of CUSFTA

Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - CESifo - 2012

If a free trade agreement (FTA) is characterized by the exchange of market access with a large and competitive trading partner, the agreement can cause a leakage of protectionist benefits to domestic industry from lobbying against external tariff cuts. This rent destruction effect of an FTA can...

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Testing the General Validity of the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem: The Natural Experiment of Japan

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John C. - CESifo - 2011

We exploit Japan’s 19th century move from autarky to free trade to provide the first test of the general validity of the price formulation of the Heckscher-Ohlin theorem. In this formulation a country’s autarky factor price vector imposes a single refutable prediction on the economy’s...

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A Factor Augmentation Formulation of the Value of International Trade

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John C. - CESifo - 2012

We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds Ricardo’s 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong assumptions on consumer rationality or data from...

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The Impact of Trade Preferences on Multilateral Tariff Cuts: Evidence for Japan

Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - CESifo - 2014

Opposing theoretical predictions on the effects of trade preferences on multilateral tariff cuts point to the need for empirical analysis to determine whether preferential trade agreements promote or hinder multilateral trade liberalization. This paper examines the impact of Japan’s trade...

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