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Breinlich, Holger; Criscuolo, Chiara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

-level data on services exports and imports in the United Kingdom in 2000- 2005. Less than 10% of firms trade in services but they … can be found in all sectors of the UK economy. While the services sector accounts for 80% of total exports and imports …

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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics

Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....

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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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Optimal hedging strategies and interactions between firms

Loss, Frederic - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper studies corporate risk management in a context with financial constraints and imperfect competition on the product market. We show that the interactions between firms heavily affect their hedging demand. As a general rule, the firms’ hedging demand decreases with the correlation...

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International trade, minimum quality standards and the prisoners' dilemma

Petropoulou, Dimitra - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Unilateral minimum quality standards are endogenously determined as the outcome of a non-cooperative standard-setting game between the governments of two countries. Cross-country externalities from the implementation of minimum quality standards are shown to give rise to a Prisoners' Dilemma...

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The determinants of intrafirm trade: evidence from French firms

Corcos, Gregory; Irac, Delphine M.; Mion, Giordano; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arms' length trade? This paper uses firm-level import data from France to look into this question. We find support for three key predictions of property-rights theories of the multinational firm. Intrafirm imports are...

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Multiple-product firms and product switching

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

This paper examines the frequency, pervasiveness, and determinants of product switching by US manufacturing firms. We find that one-half of firms alter their mix of five-digit SIC products every five years, that product switching is correlated with both firm- and firm-product attributes, and...

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Minimum wages and firm profitability

Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

reductions resulted in increases in firm exit, so our findings may be consistent with redistribution of quasi-rents towards low …

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Heterogeneous mark-ups, growth and endogenous misallocation

Peters, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

with firms’ innovation and entry decisions, which determine the economy’s growth rate. To study this link between … relationship between growth, misallocation and welfare. It stresses the importance of entry. An increase in entry reduces … misallocation by fostering competition. If entry also increases the economy-wide growth rate, static misallocation and growth are …

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The remains of regulation: airlines' profits after liberalization

Marin, Pedro L. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1995

This paper develops an empirical model of entry to analyze the effect of previous regulation on European airlines? post … perceived quality, leading to a situation in which they are less likely to enter a route, but also less likely to exit. …

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