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Market Access through Bound Tariffs
Sala, Davide; Schröder, Philipp J.H.; Yalcin, Erdal - CESifo - 2009
formalizes the underlying interaction of risk, fixed export costs and firms’ market entry decisions based on techniques known …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534023
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Comparative Advantage and Skill-Specific Unemployment
Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009
We introduce unemployment and endogenous selection of workers into different skill-classes in a trade model with two sectors and heterogeneous firms. This allows us to study the distributional consequences and the skill-specific unemployment effects of trade liberalization. We show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005013939
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Capacity Constraining Labor Market Frictions in a Global Economy
Holzner, Christian; Larch, Mario - CESifo - 2011
exporting firms triggers firm entry, reduces unemployment and increases wage dispersion in the on-the-job search model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320777
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Unemployment in an Interdependent World
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - CESifo - 2009
We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583684
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis
Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - CESifo - 2010
firm-product heterogeneity with entry costs that depend on exporter scope. Estimating this model for the within-firm sales … distribution we identify the nature and components of product entry costs. We find that firms face a strong decline in product … sales with scope but also that market-specific entry costs drop fast. Counterfactual experiments with globally falling entry …
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