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Are Exporters More Likely to Introduce Product Innovations?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Felice, Giulia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011
A firm\'s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We explore this idea using very … rich firm-level data on Italian A firm\'s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We …\' distance from export markets and of their export market potential as instruments for differences in export activities. We find …
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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
We draw attention to the role of economic geography in explaining important cross-sectional facts which are difficult to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on...
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Heterogeneous Firm-Level Responses to Trade Liberalisation: A Test Using Stock Price Reactions
Breinlich, Holger - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper presents novel empirical evidence on key predictions of heterogeneous firm models by examining stock market reactions to the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 (CUSFTA). Using the uncertainty surrounding the agreement's ratification, I show that the pattern of abnormal...
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Service Traders in the UK
Breinlich, Holger; Criscuolo, Chiara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
show that most firms only export or import a single service type and trade with a small number of countries. Trade volume … are a number of noteworthy exceptions. Interestingly, trade is also concentrated within .rms. The top export and import …
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On the Pro-Trade Effects of Immigrants
Bratti, Massimiliano; Benedictis, Luca de; Santoni, Gianluca - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
n this paper we investigate the causal effect of immigration on trade flows. We exploit the very favorable set-up offered by the Italian panel data — the fine geographical disaggregation (provinces, i.e., Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics 3 level — NUTS-3), the very high...
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Geography, Non-Homotheticity, and Industrialization: A Quantitative Analysis
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - CESifo - 2012
We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or agriculture is driven by comparative advantage and non-homothetic preferences. Countries are integrated through trade but trade is not costless and geographic position matters....
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