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This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important … role in recent German business cycle movements, little is known about the export supply response of German firms. This … paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of German manufacturing …
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claim, we find a significant export wage premium for high-skilled workers in German manufacturing and an export wage … discount for lower skilled workers, using matched employer-employee data. Estimates suggest that the export wage premium to …
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differ across countries and issue areas. Case studies of export subsidization in Korea, Brazil, Turkey, India, Kenya, and …
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The resurgence of subsidies and industrial policies has raised concerns about their potential inefficiency and … retaliatory measures from other countries, leading to a wasteful "subsidy race." However, subsidies for sectors with inherent … industry's growth, with subsidies being the primary form of support. They also highlight the importance of cross …
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The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal analysis of the effect of surging import competition on...
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We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …
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market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants … away export platforms - i.e. they do not allow foreign affiliates of multinationals to export - or by ignoring fixed costs … multinational firms that engage in export platform sales and that face fixed costs of foreign investment. I first estimate the model …
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We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment separately) differs in French, German and U.S. manufacturing, and has changed since the 1974-75 crisis. We use three consistent panel data samples of large firms for1970-79, and rely...
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.S., Japan and Germany. A dynamic factor demand model with two variable inputs (labor and energy)and two quasi-fixed inputs …
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Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...
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