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Export Restrictions and Price Insulation During Commodity Price Booms

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

For individual countries, variable trade barriers can be used to reduce the volatility of domestic relative to world prices. If this is done by countries accounting for a large share of the market, its effect is offset by increases in world price volatility. This study shows the nature of the...

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Asia’s Growth, the Changing Geography of World Trade, and Food Security: Projections to 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

spread to the much more populous ASEAN region, China and India. This paper examines how that growth and associated structural …

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Emerging Economies, Productivity Growth, and Trade with Resource-Rich Economies by 2030

Anderson, Kym; Strutt, Anna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

the growth rates of China and India are lower by one-quarter, and the other in which this slowdown in emerging economies …

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Multi-product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World: Evidence from India

Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou; Khandelwal, Amit; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent … churning - particularly product rationalization - is far less common in India. We thus find little evidence of "creative …

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Edmonds, Eric V; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in … imply that roughly half of India's rise in schooling and a third of the fall in child labor during the 1990s can be …

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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for its product. To capture this mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management...

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Sequential Exporting

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Hector F.; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Many new exporters give up exporting very shortly, despite substantial entry costs; others shoot up foreign sales and expand to new destinations. We develop a model based on experimentation to rationalize these and other dynamic patterns of exporting firms. We posit that individual export...

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Trade Liberalization and Heterogeneous Firm Models: An Evaluation Using the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement

Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

We examine the qualitative and quantitative predictions of a heterogeneous firm model à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We calibrate our model to the pre-trade liberalization stage, simulate the trade liberalization, and compute the...

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The Tip of the Iceberg: Modeling Trade Costs and Implications for Intra-Industry Reallocation

Irarrazabal, Alfonso; Moxnes, Andreas; Opromolla, Luca David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

When trade costs are of the iceberg type (Samuelson 1952) and markups are independent of trade costs, relative prices across markets are distorted, but relative prices within markets are not. When trade costs depart from the analytically convenient iceberg type, distortion will also occur within...

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Public Procurement: A Post-Uruguay Round Perspective

Francois, Joseph; Nelson, Doug R; Palmeter, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

This paper reviews the implications of the Uruguay Round Government Procurement Agreement, both for current practice in the United States and for general conditions of market access in other major markets. We emphasize the relative importance of government purchases within given markets. Because...

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