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Does Services Liberalization Benefit Manufacturing Firms?

Arnold, Jens; Javorcik, Beata; Mattoo, Aaditya - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

While there is considerable empirical evidence on the impact of liberalizing trade in goods, the effects of services liberalization have not been empirically established. This study examines the link between services sector reforms and the productivity of manufacturing industries relying on...

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Services Reform and Manufacturing Performance: Evidence from India

Arnold, Jens; Javorcik, Beata; Lipscomb, Molly; Mattoo, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Conventional explanations for the post-1991 growth of India’s manufacturing sector focus on goods trade liberalization and industrial de-licensing. We demonstrate the powerful contribution of a neglected factor: India’s policy reforms in services. The link between these reforms and the...

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Radio and the Rise of the Nazis in Prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

How far can the media undermine democratic institutions, and how persuasive can media be in ensuring public support for …

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Globalisation and Migratory Pressures from Developing Countries: A Simulation Analysis

de Melo, Jaime; Ettinger, Charles; Faini, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

with heterogenous households. We assume that heterogeneity and migration costs prevent households from total migration … outmigration is affected by direct measures aimed at controlling migration (aid and increased migration costs) and indirect … have a financial constraint on migration as well as situations of temporary and permanent migration. These simulations show …

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Offshoring and Immigrant Employment: Firm-level Theory and Evidence

Barba Navaretti, Giorgio; Bertola, Giuseppe; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We propose and solve a simple model of firm-level decisions to offshore production stages of lower skill intensity than that of activities that remain in the domestic location. In theory, offshoring is optimal only for the more productive among heterogeneous firms if it entails a fixed cost. In...

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Trade Liberalization, Employment and Migration. Some Simulations for Morocco

de Melo, Jaime; Faini, Riccardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

We assess the impact on emigration flows of trade liberalization in a sending country. The paper adopts a case study approach focusing on Morocco, which is well suited for the purpose in hand as it has been a substantial provider of migrants to Europe and has recently undergone a fairly...

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Demand Fluctuations, Capacity Constraints and Repeated Interaction: An Empirical Analysis of Service Quality Adjustments

Chatain, Olivier; Eizenberg, Alon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We utilize a unique database from a large legal services provider to examine how service quality responds to the firm's available capacity and workload, and to the nature of the firm-client relationship. We develop empirical measures of both the (internal) level of resources available to the...

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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

Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic 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...

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Estimating the Effects of Tax Reform in Differentiated Product Oligopolistic Markets

Fershtman, Chaim; Gandal, Neil; Markovich, Sarit - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The incidence of taxation and the design of an optimal tax system have been extensively discussed in the public finance literature but mainly within a competitive market setting or within a homogenous good (Cournot type) oligopoly. In a differentiated product oligopoly, the effect of taxation...

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Network Dynamics and Knowledge Transfer in Virtual Organizations: Overcoming the Liability of Dispersion

Gandal, Neil; Stettner, Uriel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Product development within and across community-based and geographically dispersed virtual organizations is becoming an increasingly important mechanism through which individual knowledge holders create and disseminate knowledge in joint efforts to generate products. Without the benefits of...

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