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I develop a simple dynamic model of reputation-based transactions between a buyer in one country and a supplier in another. I use the model to study the impact of a more stringent regulation on the buyer optimal purchase volume within an existing buyer-seller partnership. A more stringent...
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endogenous reputation. In a high-quality equilibrium, imperfect information does not hinder entry into export markets, but there …-quality, low-cost goods. Export subsidies then have a positive welfare effect on the exporting country, by improving the average … initially exports relatively high-quality products. The model is consistent with empirical patterns of export prices. Measuring …
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This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity, which, in turn, is decomposed into e ffciency gains, technical progress and capital deepening. Data for Western European countries and the US show that the evolution of labour...
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This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...
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We use a firm production function approach to generate estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) and labor productivity in the manufacturing sector for a group of Latin American countries. We exploit these estimates to study the relative position of countries within this sector and to explore...
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This paper focuses on the identification and short term forecast of the correlation between the Labor Productivity Index (LPI) and the Average Gross Earnings Index (AGEI) in the Romanian Industry. The tools and models that were used consist of several lag econometric models, ARIMA processes, as...
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The purpose of this paper is to formalize the choices of market entry strategy (Export Vs Greenfield investment Vs Cross … export credible threats. If greenfield FDI is viable, entering firm prefers acquiring the low-productivity firm, when the …, there is always the ambiguity between the foreign firm's preference and the government's judgment. If export entry option is …
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Multinational and exporting firms play a key role in trade patterns. To highlight the importance of intra-firm trade in share of world trade, this paper develops a model of trade and intra-firm trade with heterogeneous firms. In this set up, trade costs apply to both exports and multinational...
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contribution of emerging economies is far from negligible as China and Brazil together account for about 10 percent of total … percent) but are growing rapidly, especially to China. …
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établissements de l’industrie et du commerce de gros. Les quatre profils logistiques identifiés illustrent l’inégal degré d …
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