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Mark-ups, Entry Regulation and Trade: Does Country Size Matter?

Hoekman, Bernard; Kee, Hiau Looi; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Actual and potential competition is a powerful source of discipline on the pricing behavior of firms with market power. A simple model is developed that shows that the effects of import competition and domestic entry regulation on industry price-cost markups depend on country size. Barriers to...

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Country Asymmetries, Endogenous Product Choice and the Speed of Trade Liberalization

Cabrales, Antonio; Motta, Massimo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

We analyse the effects of trade liberalization on firms' decisions and profits, and on consumers' welfare, in a product differentiation model with countries of different size. Firms decide product specifications at the beginning of the game, in which autarky is followed by trade liberalization...

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Country Size, Currency Unions, and International Asset Returns

Hassan, Tarek - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

larger fraction of the world economy. I show that differences in the size of economies indeed explain a large fraction of the …

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Country Size and Comparative Advantage: An Empirical Study

Torstensson, Johan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

We formulate a simple model that captures two recent hypotheses: (i) that countries with an abundant absolute endowment of skilled labour will be net exporters in R&D-intensive industries; and (ii) that countries with a large domestic market will be net exporters in scale-intensive industries....

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The Exchange Rate Policy of the Euro: A Matter of Size?

Martin, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

This paper analyses how country size affects exchange rate policy and volatility. A hump-shaped relation between exchange rate variability and the size of countries is generated in the theoretical model: exchange rate variability increases with country size for small countries, but then...

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Innovative Activity in Wind and Solar Technology: Empirical Evidence on Knowledge Spillovers Using Patent Data

Braun, Frauke G; Schmidt-Ehmcke, Jens; Zloczysti, Petra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

sectors (inter-sectoral spillovers), or at the international level. We find that innovation is strongly driven by knowledge … spillovers, especially those occurring at the national level. Wind and solar technologies exhibit distinct innovation … only influential in the case of wind technology. We also find evidence that public R&D stimulates innovation, particularly …

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Small Firms and R&D Spillovers: Evidence from Italy

Audretsch, David B; Vivarelli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

more important for small-firm innovation than for their larger counterparts. …

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When Does Labor Scarcity Encourage Innovation?

Acemoglu, Daron - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

environmental regulations can spur more rapid innovation. I present a general framework for the analysis of these questions. I …

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Trade Policies and Development: Some New Issues

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

The 1980s have seen the beginnings of a change of heart among developing country policymakers, as the import-substitution consensus of the previous decade has all but evaporated. It is paradoxical that the 1980s should have become the decade of trade liberalization in LDCs, since this has also...

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Financial Innovation and Endogenous Growth

Laeven, Luc; Levine, Ross; Michalopoulos, Stelios - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We model technological and financial innovation as reflecting the decisions of profit maximizing agents and explore the … also engage in the costly, risky, and potentially profitable process of innovation: Financiers can invent more effective …. Consequently, technological innovation and, thus, economic growth stop unless financiers continually innovate. Historical …

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