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Heterogeneous firms and trade
Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745182
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The roles of import competition and export opportunities for technical change
Steinwender, Claudia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … exports and imports with tariff changes and controlling for selection, I find robust evidence that access to export markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011198538
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884566
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744846
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745145
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745241
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The empirics of new economic geography
Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Although a rich and extensive body of theoretical research on new economic geography has emerged, empirical research remains comparatively less well developed. This paper reviews the existing empirical literature on the predictions of new economic geography models for the distribution of income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745314
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Explaining cross-country export performance: international linkages and internal geography
Redding, Stephen; Venables, Tony - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002
international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries’ exports into the contribution … poor external geography, poor internal geography, and poor institutional quality contribute in approximately equal measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745712
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Economic geography: a review of the theoretical and empirical literature
Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
This paper reviews the new economic geography literature, which accounts for the uneven distribution of economic activity across space in terms of a combination of love of variety preferences, increasing returns to scale and transport costs. After outlining the canonical core and periphery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745833
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Firms in international trade
Bernard, Andrew.B; Bradford Jensen, J.; Redding, Stephen; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071314