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This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...
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evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in favour of the …
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Opportunities for export-led growth by Australia's rural industries are improving as East Asia returns to growth …. It therefore makes sense for rural industries seeking to export their way to greater prosperity to look to lessons that …. Increased export demand explains much of the industry's growth over the 1990s. This has come about through an increasing …
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We examine the effects of globalization on the size and composition of tax revenues, worker-specific tax burdens, and effective average labor income tax rates using a unique international database on income tax calculators. We find that due to increasing mobility of firms and high-income...
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Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed significant new developments, both on the theoretical...
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We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions against the backdrop of multi-sector versions of the models...
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The second decade of rapid globalization of the wine industry is assessed using a newly-published statistical compendium of global wine markets. A dozen observations are made from those data offer insights into key new opportunities and challenges associated with recent globalization forces. A...
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