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Quality Sorting and Trade: Firm-Level Evidence for French Wine
Crozet, Matthieu; Head, Keith; Mayer, Thierry - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009
model. By using direct measures of quality, we can recover estimates of parameters from a Melitz-based model of … heterogeneous firms. We then regress averages of the quality, price, and quantity shipped to a country on measures of its … attractiveness and entry costs. Champagne exhibits quality-sorting: more attractive markets tend to have lower average qualities and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493420
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International Trade and Firms’ Heterogeneity Under Monopolistic Competition
Jean, Sébastien - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062841
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Unilateral trade reform, Market Access and Foreign Competition: the Patterns of Multi-Product Exporters
Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011
Recent findings in international trade using detailed firm level surveys emphasize the microeconomic effects of trade liberalization episodes. A unilateral trade reform has two opposite effects on firms’ export patterns: (i) expansion of export opportunities for foreign firms exporting to that...
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Trade Patterns Inside the Single Market
Fontagné, Lionel; Freudenberg, Michaël; Peridy, Nicolas - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406554
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Notes on CEPII’s distances measures: The GeoDist database
Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011
existing similar datasets in terms of geographical coverage, quality of measurement and number of variables provided. …
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Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence
Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013
This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the...
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European Export Performance
Cheptea, Angela; Fontagné, Lionel; Zignago, Soledad - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012
Competitiveness has come to the forefront of the policy debate within the European Union, focusing on price competitiveness and intra-EU imbalances. But how to measure competitiveness properly, beyond price or cost competitiveness, remains an open methodological issue; and how can we explain the...
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Preferential Trade Agreements Proliferation: Sorting out the Effects
Bensassi, Sami; Sousa, José de; Jarreau, Joachim - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013
This paper studies the implications of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) proliferation. Using counterfactual estimation, we disentangle the treatment effect of one PTA on members’ trade and real income, from the externalities created by concurrent trade policy changes. Results, focusing on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610330
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Multinational Retailers and Home Country Exports
Cheptea, Angela; Emlinger, Charlotte; Latouche, Karine - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012
This paper questions whether the overseas expansion of a country’s retailers fosters overall bilateral exports towards these host markets. To address this question, we consider an empirical trade model, where the foreign sales of multinational retailers reduce the fixed and variable trade...
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Ethnic Networks, Information, and International Trade: Revisiting the Evidence
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Jung, Benjamin; Toubal, Farid - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009
Influential empirical work by Rauch and Trindade (REStat, 2002) finds that Chinese ethnic networks of the magnitude observed in Southeast Asia increase bilateral trade by at least 60%. We argue that this estimate is upward biased due to omitted variable bias. Moreover, it is partly related to a...
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