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Estimating Trade Flows : Trading Partners and Trading Volumes
Helpman, Elhanan - 2007
We develop a simple model of international trade with heterogeneous firms that is consistent with a number of stylized features of the data. In particular, the model predicts positive as well as zero trade flows across pairs of countries, and it allows the number of exporting firms to vary...
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
We explore the relationship between proximity of buyers and sellers and the organizational form of outsourcing. Outsourcing can be "contractual" in which suppliers undertake specific investments or involve "generic" market transactions. Proximity expands the variety of products sourced through...
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Time as a Trade Barrier
Hummels, David - 2012
A large and growing share of international trade is carried on airplanes. Air cargo is many times more expensive than maritime transport but arrives in destination markets much faster. We model firms' choice between exporting goods using fast but expensive air cargo and slow but cheap ocean...
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How Far Goods Travel : Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third. Participation of emerging economies in world trade and...
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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, A. Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-EMU Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
In our European Economic Review (2002) paper, we used pre-1998 data on countries participating in and leaving currency unions to estimate the effect of currency unions on trade using (then-) conventional gravity models. In this paper, we use a variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the...
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Exploring European Regional Trade
Santamaría, Marta A.; Ventura, Jaume; Yeşilbayraktar, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use the new dataset of trade flows across 269 European regions in 24 countries constructed in Santamaría et al. (2020) to systematically explore for the first time trade patterns within and across country borders. We focus on the differences between home trade, country trade and foreign...
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period … 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to … our model and use these estimates, as well as the observed changes in tariffs, to quantify the effects from the EU …
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Does Distance Still Matter? The Information Revolution in Small Business Lending
Petersen, Mitchell A. - 2000
The distance between small firms and their lenders in the United States is increasing. Not only are firms choosing more distant lenders, they are also communicating with them in more impersonal ways. After documenting these systematic changes, we demonstrate that they do not stem from small...
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