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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 … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …

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Productivity and the sourcing modes of multinational firms: evidence from French firm-level data

Defever, Fabrice; Toubal, Farid - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

We investigate the role of a firm’s total factor productivity in its decision to import from their affiliates rather … strong empirical support for the theoretical predictions of the model. In particular, high-productivity firms that have a …

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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. …

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Estimating the extensive margin of trade

Santos Silva, Joao; Tenreyro, Silvana; Wei, Kehai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

Understanding and quantifying the determinants of the number of sectors or firms exporting in a given country is of relevance for the assessment of trade policies. Estimation of models for the number of exporting sectors, however, poses a challenge because the dependent variable has both a lower...

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Cheap imports and the loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs

Cooke, Abigail; Kemeny, Thomas; Rigby, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

This paper examines the role of international trade, and specifically imports from low-wage countries, in determining patterns of job loss in U.S. manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2007. Motivated by intuitions from factor-proportions-inspired work on offshoring and heterogeneous firms...

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Temporary protection and technology adoption: evidence from the Napoleonic blockade

Juhász, Réka - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper uses a natural experiment to assess whether temporary protection from trade with industrial leaders can foster development of infant industries in follower countries. Using a new dataset compiled from primary sources, I find that in the short-run regions (départements) in the French...

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A trapped-factors model of innovation

Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul M.; Terry, Stephen J.; Van … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We explain a counterintuitive empirical finding: Firms facing more import competition do more innovation. In our model, factors are trapped inside a firm. An increase in import competition encourages a firm to innovate by reducing the opportunity cost of inputs. Without trapped factors, trade...

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Trade crisis?: what trade crisis?

Behrens, Kristian; Corcos, Gregory; Mion, Giordano - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013

We investigate the dramatic 2008–2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. Belgian trade essentially fell because of reduced quantities and unit prices, rather than fewer firms involved in international transactions, fewer trading partners per firm, or fewer...

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External integration, structural transformation and economic development: evidence from Argentina

Fajgelbaum, Pablo; Redding, Stephen - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper uses the natural experiment of Argentina’s integration into world markets in the late-nineteenth century to provide evidence on the role of internal geography in shaping the effects of external integration. We develop a quantitative model of the distribution of economic activity...

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Winners and losers from a commodities-for-manufactures trade boom

Costa, Francisco; Garred, Jason; Pessoa, João Paulo - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

A recent boom in commodities-for-manufactures trade between China and other developing countries has led to much concern about the losers from rising import competition in manufacturing, but little attention on the winners from growing Chinese demand for commodities. Using census data for...

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