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Antidumping and the Death of Trade
Besedes, Tibor; Prusa, Thomas J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We investigate the extent to which antidumping actions eliminate trade altogether. Using quarterly export data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969282
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Exporting and Plant-Level Efficiency Gains: It's in the Measure
Marin, Alvaro Garcia; Voigtländer, Nico - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also … marginal cost as an efficiency measure that is not affected by output prices. For export entrants, we find within …-plant efficiency gains of 15-25%. Because markups remain relatively stable after export entry, most of these gains are passed on to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010969319
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Industrial Policy and Downstream Export Performance
Blonigen, Bruce A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Industrial policies (IPs) include such varying practices as production subsidies, export subsidies, and import … from 1975 through 2000, this paper examines whether steel-sector IPs have a significant impact on the export … find that a one-standard-deviation increase in IP presence leads to a 3.6% decline in export competitiveness for an average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950685
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The Comparative Advantage of Cities
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We develop a theory to jointly address these fundamental questions about the spatial organization of economies. Our model incorporates a system of cities, their internal urban structures, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950777
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Poor Quality Drugs and Global Trade: A Pilot Study
Bate, Roger; Jin, Ginger Zhe; Mathur, Aparna; Attaran, Amir - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
explanation is that Indian pharmaceutical firms and/or their export intermediaries do indeed differentiate drug quality according …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950809
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Trade Models, Trade Elasticities, and the Gains from Trade
Simonovska, Ina; Waugh, Michael E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We argue that the welfare gains from trade in new models with micro-level margins exceed those in frameworks without these margins. Theoretically, we show that for fixed trade elasticity, different models predict identical trade flows, but different patterns of micro-level price variation. Thus,...
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Export Markets and Labor Allocation in a Low-income Country
Pavcnik, Nina; McCaig, Brian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the effects of an export shock on labor allocation across household businesses and employers in the formal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951004
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Accounting for Expectational and Structural Error in Binary Choice Problems: A Moment Inequality Approach
Dickstein, Michael J.; Morales, Eduardo - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
Many economic decisions involve a binary choice - for example, when consumers decide to purchase a good or when firms decide to enter a new market. In such settings, agents' choices often depend on imperfect expectations of the future payoffs from their decision (expectational error) as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951018
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Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality
Manova, Kalina; Zhang, Zhiwei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
. Using detailed customs data for China, we establish four new stylized facts consistent with this model. First, firms earn … skewed towards their core expensive goods in destinations where they offer less items. Finally, export prices are positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951043
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Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Direct empirical evidence on whether domestic consumers or foreign exporters bear the burden of a country's import duties is scarce. This paper examines the incidence of U.S. sugar duties using a unique set of high-frequency (weekly, and sometimes daily) data on the landed and the duty-inclusive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951065