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multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …
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(MC) sector in which firms may have heterogeneous productivity levels. Domestic protection brings gains from expanding the …
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increasing in firm productivity while the number of produced products that are exported is weakly increasing in firm productivity … the relationships between firm productivity and the numbers of exported products observed in the data, several demand and …
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Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …
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This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
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The literature has shown that the implied welfare gains from international financial integration are very small. We revisit the existing findings and document that welfare gains can be substantial if capital goods are not perfect substitutes. We use a model of optimal savings that includes a...
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This Economica Coase Lecture reviews research that has revolutionized the field of international trade and foreign direct investment. It explains the motivation behind the development of new analytical frameworks, the nature of these frameworks, and the empirical studies that sprouted from them.
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This Paper analyses the production efficiency gains in terms of technology transfer and labour productivity changes … firms operating in Greece in 1997. Departures from normality of labour productivity and its logarithm led to the adoption of … productivity which stems exclusively from full and majority owned affiliates and becomes significant only in the middle quantiles …
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We evaluate the impact of the export promotion program delivered by the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service on various dimensions of export performance. Over the 1999-2006 time period we study, Canadian firms successfully diversified their exports to destinations beyond the United States and...
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related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission intensity is, however, negatively related to .rms. productivity and …
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