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Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...
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new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an …
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competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services … sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their marginal costs, allowing the model to predict domestic M&A and exit … by closedown, as well as foreign M&A. The model is brought to detailed French firm-level data on exit and M&A in the …
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The decision to exit is examined for a cohort of over 12,000 plants established in 1976. Using a longitudinal data base … more employees during the start -up year are found to have a lower likelihood of exit than do smaller plants. Similarly …, establishnwnts which are independent are found to have a lower likelihood of exit within the following years than do newly created …
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, in terms of survival, employment growth, wage growth, and export growth. We suggest that the green industry (as defined … characterized as a unique industry with substantial potential for employment growth, well-paying ‘green jobs,’ and export … differences between EPMs and their non-EPM counterparts in the same industry, in terms of employment, employee compensation …
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities....
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In markets where spatial competition is important, many models predict that average prices are lower in denser markets (i.e., those with more producers per unit area). Homogeneous-producer models attribute this effect solely to lower optimal markups. However, when producers instead differ in...
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It is well known that new businesses are typically much smaller than their established industry competitors, and that this size gap closes slowly. We show that even in commodity-like product markets, these patterns do not reflect productivity gaps, but rather differences in demand-side...
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Economists have often argued that "pay for performance" is the optimal compensation scheme. However, use of the simplest form of pay for performance, the piece rate, has been in decline in manufacturing in recent decades. We show both theoretically and empirically that these changes are due to...
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This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then discuss how these factors are frequently measured in the data and note some resulting empirical regularities....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025313