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The pattern of employment and residential land use and densities in a stochastic model of urban location

Gruenstein, John - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1986

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Carlino, Gerald A.; Carr, Jake; Hunt, Robert M.; Smith, … - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2010

This paper has been superseded by WP 15-03.<p>The authors document the spatial concentration of more than 1,000 research and development (R&D) labs located in the Northeast corridor of the U.S. using point pattern methods. These methods allow systematic examination of clustering at different...</p>

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Regional authorities, public services, and the location of economic activity

McAndrews, James; Voith, Richard - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 1990

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How important is the currency denomination of exports in open-economy models?

Dotsey, Michael; Duarte, Margarida - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2009

exports for the properties of open-economy models. …

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Establishment heterogeneity, exporter dynamics, and the effects of trade liberalization

Alessandria, George; Choi, Horag - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2007

The authors study a variation of the Melitz (2003) model, a monopolistically competitive model with heterogeneity in productivity across establishments and fixed costs of exporting. They calibrate the model to match the employment size distribution of US manufacturing establishments. Export...

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Economies of scale and the size of exporters

Armenter, Roc; Koren, Miklos - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2009

Exporters are few-less than one-fifth among U.S. manufacturing firms-and are larger than non-exporting firms-about 4-5 times more total sales per firm. These facts are often cited as support for models with economies of scale and firm heterogeneity as in Melitz (2003). The authors find that the...

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Export dynamics in large devaluations

Alessandria, George; Pratap, Sangeeta; Yue, Vivian - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2013

document two main features of exports that are puzzling for standard trade models. First, given the change in relative prices …, exports tend to grow gradually following a devaluation. Second, high interest rates tend to suppress exports. To address these … features giving rise to sluggish exports lead to more gradual net export reversals, sharper contractions and recoveries in …

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Do falling iceberg costs explain recent U.S. export growth?

Alessandria, George; Choi, Horag - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2010

Superseded by Working Paper 12-20 ; The authors study the rise in U.S. manufacturing exports from 1987 to 2002 through … the model to calculate the predicted increase in trade. Contrary to the findings in Yi (2003), they find that the exports …

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Do sunk costs of exporting matter for net export dynamics?

Alessandria, George; Choi, Horag - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2005

decisions are important for the comovements of net exports and the real exchange rate. In this paper, the authors evaluate these …

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Trade wedges, inventories, and international business cycles

Alessandria, George; Kaboski, Joseph; Midrigan, Virgiliu - Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - 2012

alters the international transmission of business cycles. Specifically, real net exports become countercyclical and …

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