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Cultural integration and export variety overlap across countries

Egger, Peter; Lassman, Andrea - 2014

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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Productivity sorting and mode of export : Marco Grazzi; Chiara Tomasi

Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2014

This paper investigates the relation between firms' productivity and exporting behavior in presence of export … productivity-sorting prediction according to which domestic firms are less efficient than those resorting to an export intermediary …, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly. Our novel finding is that firms' productivity has …

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Export intermediaries and adjustments to exchange rate movements

Bolatto, Stefano; Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2017

result, validated on Italian firm-level trade data, is consistent with productivity sorting in the export mode and with the … intermediary export flows to a given destination react to exchange rate movements along the extensive margin of adjustment …

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Indirect exporters and importers

Grazzi, Marco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2015

trade. In particular, we account for the possibility that firms can not only export their products, but also internationally … than those resorting to an export intermediary, while the latter are less productive than producers which export directly …

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Exports and productivity - comparable evidence for 14 countries

Pertl, Leonhard (contributor); Schiavo, Stefano (contributor) - International Study Group on Exports and Productivity - 2008

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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The taxing deed of globalization

Egger, Peter; Nigai, Sergey; Strecker, Nora Margot - 2016 - This draft: April 2016

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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Trade costs in the global economy : measurement, aggregation and decomposition

Egger, Peter; Larch, Mario; Nigai, Sergey; Yotov, Yoto - 2021 - Manuscript date: 10 May 2018

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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The Post-Crisis Sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade as a Complement to a Monetary Future

Plummer, Michael G.; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - In: Economie Internationale (2006) 107, pp. 59-85

Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...

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Empirical productivity distributions and international trade

Egger, Peter; Erhardt, Katharina; Nigai, Sergey - 2021 - This draft: March 2021

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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Effects of the Endogenous Scope of Preferentialism on International Goods Trade

Egger, Peter; Wamser, Georg - 2013

Previous empirical research has assumed that goods trade responds to goods trade preferentialism only, while other forms of preferentialism – such as services trade or investment preferentialism – are irrelevant for goods trade. This paper provides novel evidence for the gains from a broader...

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