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education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports … trade costs, more pervasive input-output linkages, or stronger increasing returns to scale, we show theoretically that …
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This paper explores the relationship between exchange rate pass-through and market share for monopolistically competitive exporters. Under fairly general assumptions we show that pass-through should be high for exporters based in a country with a very large share of total destination market...
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Chinese trade flows. First, across firms selling a given product, exporters that charge higher prices earn greater revenues in … more origin countries. We propose that trade models should incorporate two features to rationalize these patterns in the …
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This paper provides evidence on monopolistic competition models with endogenous technology by studying the effects of sectoral export variety on country productivity. The effects are estimated in a translog GDP function system based on data for 34 countries from 1982 to 1997. Country...
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We develop a model of international trade with export quality requirements and two dimensions of firm heterogeneity. In …
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I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the … the structure of international trade flows. I also review empirical work suggestive of the empirical relevance of the …
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This paper examines the factors that give rise to intermediaries in exporting and explores the implications for trade … underlying differences between direct and intermediary exporters have important consequences for trade flows. The ability of …
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Large multi-product firms dominate international trade flows. This paper documents new facts about multi … goods that are not produced by the firm, so-called Carry-Along Trade (CAT). The number of CAT products is strongly …
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This paper investigates the determinants of countries' export performance looking in particular at the role of international product market linkages. We begin with a novel decomposition of the growth in countries' exports into the contribution from increases in external demand and from improved...
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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 across destination countries. As a result, the impact of trade frictions on …
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