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Sala, Davide; Schröder, Philipp J.H.; Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2009

formalizes the underlying interaction of risk, fixed export costs and firms’ market entry decisions based on techniques known …

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Concentration, agglomeration and the size of plants

Lafourcade, Miren; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

This paper investigates whether the geographic distribution of manufacturing activities depends on the size of plants. Using Italian data, we find, as in Kim [Kim, S., 1995. Expansion of markets and the geographic concentration of economic activities: the trends in U.S. regional manufacturing...

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Product choice and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

theoretical model incorporates heterogeneous firms, heterogeneous products, and ongoing entry and exit. In equilibrium, firm … fixed costs. Changes in market structure result in systematic patterns of firm entry/exit and product switching. …

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Comparative Advantage and Skill-Specific Unemployment

Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009

We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...

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Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions in a Global Economy

Holzner, Christian; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2011

exporting firms triggers firm entry, reduces unemployment and increases wage dispersion in the on-the-job search model with …

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Unemployment in an Interdependent World

Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...

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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis

Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2010

firm-product heterogeneity with entry costs that depend on exporter scope. Estimating this model for the within-firm sales … distribution we identify the nature and components of product entry costs. We find that firms face a strong decline in product … sales with scope but also that market-specific entry costs drop fast. Counterfactual experiments with globally falling entry …

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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms

Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C; Tintelnot, Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the extensive and intensive margins of firms' global sourcing decisions. We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. The model delivers a simple...

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Multi-product firms and trade liberalization

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

“expertise”, both of which are stochastic and unknown prior to the firm’s payment of a sunk cost of entry. Higher firm …

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Multi-Product Firms and Product Switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen J.; Schott, Peter K. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness and determinants of product switching among U.S. manufacturing firms. We find that two-thirds of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that one-third of the increase in real U.S. manufacturing shipments between 1972...

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