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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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Who is Afraid of Globalization? The Challenge of Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America
Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper examines why ‘globaphobia’ seems to be more prevalent among labour in the United States than in Europe. It argues that globalization has generated more wealth, but also more income inequality and adjustment problems, in America than in Europe. In the United States, the median voter...
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Globalization and Union Opposition to Technological Change
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
We find that trade unions have a rational incentive to oppose the adoption of labour-saving technology when labour demand is inelastic and unions care much for employment relative to wages. Trade liberalization typically increases trade union technology opposition. These conclusions are reached...
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A User's Guide to Uruguay Round Assessments
Francois, Joseph; McDonald, Brad; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996
In this paper we provide a broad overview of the computable general equilibrium (CGE) literature on the Uruguay Round, detailing the policy experiments of various studies and differences in model structures and relating these to the overall pattern of results. We supplement this overview with a...
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