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We use the dynamics of U.S. imports across goods in the period around the U.S.-China trade war with a model of exporter …
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toward costs of acquiring imports from that same market, and vice versa. Using dis-aggregated transactions data for Chinese …
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What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase domestically varieties of intermediate inputs. Imports affect firm … varieties imported. Our results suggest that the role of imports is both statistically and economically significant. Imports are …
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This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on … Norwegian firm-level data on R&D and trade in intermediates, we structurally estimate the model and find that both imports and R … lower after controlling for the complementarity between R&D investments and imports. We exploit the introduction of an R …
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This paper proposes that quality differentiation is an important feature of the operations of multi-product firms. We develop a model in which manufacturers vary product quality across their product range by using inputs of different quality levels. Firms' core competency is in varieties of...
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This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets they serve, and update their beliefs as noisy...
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We present a North-South model of international trade in which differentiated products are developed in the North. Sectors are populated by final-good producers who differ in productivity levels. Based on productivity and sectoral characteristics, firms decide whether to integrate into the...
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This Paper builds a multi-country, multi-sector general equilibrium model that explains the decision of heterogeneous firms to serve foreign markets either through exports or local subsidiary sales (FDI). These modes of market access involve different relative costs, some of which are sunk while...
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We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities stand out: (1) the number of French firms selling to a market, relative to French market share, increases systematically with market size; (2) sales distributions are very similar...
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imports. We compare them with Trefler's (2004) estimates of the effects of CUSFTA. Our results show that our model performs … in Canadian exports and imports. We discuss how liberalization-induced changes in the firm-level productivity …
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