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Democratic Capital: The Nexus of Political and Economic Change

Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the joint dynamics of economic and political change. Predictions of the simple model that we formulate in the paper get considerable support in a panel of data on political regimes and GDP per capita for about 150 countries over 150 years. Democratic capital - measured by a nation's...

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The Hazards of Doing a PhD: An Analysis of Completion and Withdrawal Rates of British PhDs in the 1980s

Booth, Alison L; Satchell, Stephen E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

The paper examines UK PhD completion and withdrawal rates, in a competing risks framework, using the 1986 National Survey of 1980 Graduates. The statistical problem of thresholding of completion data is also addressed. We argue that our results suggest that there are problems with the use of PhD...

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Towards a Theory of Firm Entry and Stabilization Policy

Bergin, Paul R; Corsetti, Giancarlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper explores the role of stabilization policy in a model where firm entry responds to shocks and uncertainty. We evaluate stabilization policy in the context of a simple analytically solvable sticky price model, where firms have to prepay a fixed cost of entry. The presence of endogenous...

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Can Production Subsidies Foster Export Activity? Evidence from Chinese Firm Level Data

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; Yu, Zhihong - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

more pronounced amongst profit-making firms, firms in capital intensive industries and those with previous exporting …

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Exporting, Linkages and Productivity Spillovers from Foreign Direct Investment

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Pisu, Mauro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

In this paper we analyse productivity spillovers from foreign direct investment using firm level panel data UK manufacturing industries from 1992 to 1999. We investigate spillovers through horizontal, backward and forward linkages, distinguish spillovers from export oriented vs domestic market...

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Getting Ready: Preparation for Exporting

Iacovone, Leonardo; Javorcik, Beata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

for their domestic sales of this variety. Consistently with the hypothesis of quality upgrading before exporting, we find …

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Carry-Along Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Blanchard, Emily; van Beveren, Ilke; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi-product manufacturing exporters that are not easily reconciled with existing multi-product models. Using novel linked production and export data at the firm-product level, we find that the...

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Grant Support and Exporting Activity

Görg, Holger; Henry, Michael; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data …. Our results suggest that if grants are large enough they can encourage already exporting firms to compete more effectively … on the international market. However, there is little evidence that grants encourage non-exporters to start exporting. …

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Productivity Effects of International Outsourcing: Evidence from Plant Level Data

Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

on productivity is different for plants being more embedded in international markets through exporting or being part of a …

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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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