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The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

A fundamental question in monopolistic competition theory is whether the market allocates resources efficiently. This paper generalizes the Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz framework to heterogeneous firms, addressing when the market provides optimal quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant...

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Shifts in Economic Geography and their Causes

Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'new economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and...

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Exports, Productivity, and Credit Constraints: A Firm-Level Empirical Investigation of China

Li, Zhiyuan; Yu, Miaojie - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2009

export decisions. We imbed the firmfs credit constraints into a Melitz-type general-equilibrium model by endogenizing the … probability of the success of firm-specific projects. We show that, all else equal, it is easier for firms to enter the export …

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Cost Reduction Effects of "pseudo FTAs" in Asia -Application of a price model based on a multilateral I/O table-

Tamamura, Chiharu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper examines the repercussion effects on the production cost of industries in Asian countries when some countries eliminate tariffs and import commodity taxes on all imports. This kind of analysis is related in some sense to that measuring the effects of FTAs on economies, and thus may be...

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Productivity and ICT: A Review of the Evidence

Draca, Mirko; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We survey the micro and macro literature on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth accounting and econometric evidence suggest an...

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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …

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The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

Steinwender, Claudia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … conducts a "horse race" between export opportunities and import competition. Using Spanish firm level data, instrumenting for … exports and imports with tariff changes and controlling for selection, I find robust evidence that access to export markets …

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FDI-Trade Nexus: New Evidence from Product-Level Data

Nishitateno, Shuhei - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2012

The difficulty in finding the substitution effects on exports of foreign direct investment has posed challenges to empirical analysts. In analysing newly-constructed product-level data that enable endogeneity and aggregation bias to be addressed simultaneously, this study finds that auto part...

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The Influence of Intra-Industry Trade on Export Sensitivity to Exchange Rates

Oguro, Yoko - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2007

certain circumstances. Focusing on the industry-specific sensitivity of export quantities to exchange rates in the context of …, and North America. The results confirm that export sensitivity to exchange rates declines as the extent of IIT increases …

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