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Trade liberalization and heterogeneous firm models: an evaluation using the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
We examine the qualitative and quantitative predictions of a heterogeneous firm model à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We calibrate our model to the pre-trade liberalization stage, simulate the trade liberalization, and compute the...
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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change
Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
-profit maximizing managers to reconcile theory with the evidence. Empirically, I find that all productivity upgrades are driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198538
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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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The auto-component supply chain in China and India: a benchmark study
Sutton, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which Chinese and Indian autocomponent producers have advanced towards international best practice levels of productivity and quality. The report is based on a survey of nine car manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745200
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The 'emulator effect' of the Uruguay round on US regionalism
Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has granted immediate duty free access (IDA) to its Free Trade Area partners...
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European integration and the gains from trade
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
general equilibrium’ (CGE) analysis thanks to their tight connection between theory and data, appealing micro …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125983
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A 'new trade' theory of GATT/WTO negotiations
Ossa, Ralph - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
I develop a novel theory of GATT/WTO negotiations. This theory provides new answers to two prominent questions in the … fundamental GATT/WTO principles of reciprocity and nondiscrimination? Relative to the standard terms-of-trade theory of GATT …/WTO negotiations, my theory makes two main contributions: first, it builds on a ‘new trade’ model rather than the neoclassical trade …
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Gone for good? Subsidies with export share requirements in China: 2002-2013
Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This paper presents a simple model of subsidies with export share requirements (ESR) in a heterogeneous firm environment. A two-country general equilibrium version of the model with a single 100% ESR is calibrated using firm-level data from the 2002 wave of the Business Environment and...
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China's pure exporter subsidies
Defever, Fabrice; Riaño, Alejandro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
One third of Chinese exporters sell more than ninety percent of their production abroad. We argue that this distinctive pattern is attributable to a wide range of subsidies that provide incentives to these “pure exporters”. We propose a heterogeneous firm model in which firms exporting all...
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Multi-product firms and trade liberalization
Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper develops a general equilibrium model of multi-product firms and analyzes their behavior during trade liberalization. Firm productivity in a given product is modeled as a combination of firm-level “ability” and firmproduct- level “expertise”, both of which are stochastic and...
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