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International trade and retail market performance and structure : theory and empirical evidence

Meinen, Philipp; Raff, Horst - 2018

local retail market concentration. Overall, we obtain support for the model’s predictions and argue that the observed …

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Financial development and export concentration

Unger, Florian - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller … support for the predictions of the investment model that higher financial development increases export concentration among top …

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Political booms, financial crises

Herrera, Helios; Ordoñez, Guillermo; Trebesch, Christoph - 2014

We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments' popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in emerging economies. We show that governments in emerging...

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A menagerie of rankings : a look in RePEc's factory

Linnemer, Laurent - 2023

This paper provides an overview of RePEc a digital platform for the dissemination of research in economics. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc's main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and...

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Product versus process : innovation strategies of multi-product firms

Flach, Lisandra; Irlacher, Michael - 2015

We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product differentiation. Industry-specific demand and cost linkages induce a distinction between the returns to innovation. In differentiated...

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Market potential and global growth over the long twentieth century

Jacks, David S.; Novy, Dennis - 2018

We examine the evolution of market potential and its role in driving economic growth over the long twentieth century. Theoretically, we exploit a structural gravity model to derive a closed-form solution for a widely-used measure of market potential. We are thus able to express market potential...

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Use and abuse of antidumping by global cartels

Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik; Hoffstadt, Martin - 2020

Antidumping creates opportunities for abuse to stifle market competition. Whether cartels actually abuse trade policy for anticompetitive purposes remains an open question in the literature. To address this gap, we construct a novel dataset that matches cartel investigations with trade data at...

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Common ownership, concentration and corporate conduct

Schmalz, Martin C. - 2018

behavior has been the subject of theoretical inquiry for decades. Since then, consolidation and increasing concentration in the … asset-management industry has led to more pronounced common ownership concentration (CoOCo). Moreover, recent empirical …

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Natural resource dependence and monopolized imports

Arezki, Rabah; Fernandes, Ana; Merchán, Federico; … - 2021

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel … dependence is associated with larger market concentration of imports and with higher tariffs. The effect on the concentration of …

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Global Manufacturing SO2 Emissions : Does Trade Matter?

Grether, Jean-Marie - 2014

A growth-decomposition (scale, technique and composition effect) covering 62 countries and 7 manufacturing sectors over the 1990-2000 period shows that trade, through reallocations of activities across countries, has contributed to a 2-3 percent decrease in world SO2 emissions. However, when...

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