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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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finds that Canadian tariff cuts increased exit rates among moderately productive non-exporting plants. This led to the … Canadian tariffs were reduced. The U.S. tariff cuts led to the within-plant productivity gains in exporters and, especially …
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U.S. v. Microsoft and the related state suit filed in 1998 appear finally to have concluded. In a unanimous en banc decision issued in late June 2004, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected challenges to the remedies approved by the District Court in November 2002. The wave of follow-on...
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destruction". We also find no link between declines in tariffs on final goods induced by India's 1991 trade reform and product …
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Employment growth is strongly predicted by smaller average establishment size, both across cities and across industries …
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implies that previous work linking (revenue-based) productivity to survival has confounded the separate and opposing effects … of technical efficiency and demand on survival, understating the true impacts of both. We further show that young …
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