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Does family control affect trade performance?: evidence for Italian firms

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it looks at whether family control is an obstacle to entering foreign markets. The underlying assumption is that family firms are risk averse. Risk aversion may be an obstacle to...

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Economic geography and international inequality

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...

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Intrafirm trade and product contractibility

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

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Trade shocks and industrial location: the impact of EEC accession on the UK

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L. Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This paper combines establishment level production data with international trade data by port to examine the impact of accession to the EEC on the spatial distribution of UK manufacturing. We use this data to test the predictions from economic geography models of how external trade affects the...

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Relative wage variation and industry location

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K.; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundant regions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that the location of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regions with low skill...

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The port geography of UK international trade

Overman, Henry G.; Winters, L Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

and exports by both port of entry and exit and commodity. Our results suggest that between 1970 and 1992 overall imports … and exports reorientated in favour of ports located nearer to the continent. The vast majority of individual commodities …

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Endowments, market potential, and industrial location: evidence from interwar Poland (1918-1939)

Wolf, Nikolaus - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

The paper explores the determinants of industry location across interwar Poland. After more than 120 years of political and economic separation, Poland was reunified at the end of 1918. In consequence, its industry faced massive structural changes: the removal of internal tariff barriers and...

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Trade crisis? What trade crisis?

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

find that changes in firm-country-product exports and imports occurred mostly atthe intensive margin: the number of firms … and countrycharacteristics. The most important factor explaining changes in exports is the destination country … explanatorypower on the exports and imports fall respectively, but appear to have affected domestic operations inequal proportion. More …

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Distance, skill deepening and development : will peripheral countries ever get rich?

Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

education and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports …

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Heterogeneous firms and trade

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (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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