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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World: A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents and Surfactant Producers
Javorcik, Beata; Keller, Wolfgang; Tybout, James R - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
new products and processes from their headquarters to Mexico. Finally, although Mexican detergent exports captured an …
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Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors
Bombarda, Pamela; McCann, Fergal; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
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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Entry Mistakes
Cabral, Luís M B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
Frequently, aspiring entrants have only limited information about their potential rivals’ entry decisions. As a result, the outcome of the entry game may be that more firms enter than the market can sustain; or, at least, that unnecessary entry investments are made. We refer to these outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005662244
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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Export Destinations and Input Prices
Bastos, Paulo; Silva, Joana; Verhoogen, Eric A - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083348
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Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Selection: Why and how heterogeneity matters
Nocco, Antonella; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Salto, Matteo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
After some decades of relative oblivion, the interest in the optimality properties of monopolistic competition has recently re-emerged due to the availability of an appropriate and parsimonious framework to deal with firm heterogeneity. Within this framework we show that non-separable utility,...
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Restructuring And Productivity Growth In UK Manufacturing
Disney, Richard F; Haskel, Jonathan; Heden, Ylva - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
organizational change) and 'external' restructuring (the process by which less efficient establishments exit and more efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666830
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Quantifying a Dangerous Obsession? Competitiveness and export performance in an OECD Panel of Industries
Carlin, Wendy; Glyn, Andrew J; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
This paper analyses the impact of cost competitiveness and technology on export performance using a very rich panel dataset of 12 manufacturing industries in 14 OECD countries for the period between 1970 and 1992. Consistent with standard models, we find that changes in relative unit labour...
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Financial health, exports, and firm survival: A comparison of British and French firms
Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We examine the differential effects of financial status and exporting activity on the likelihood of survival for firms … direct impact of financial characteristics and different facets of exporting activity on the likelihood of survival? Do the … sensitivities of survival incidence to financial variables vary with the exporting status of firms? We find strong evidence that …
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Concording EU Trade and Production Data over Time
Bernard, Andrew B.; van Beveren, Ilke; Vandenbussche, Hylke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...
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