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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the development of new theories emphasizing firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371478
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Skills, Labour Costs and Vertically Differentiated Industries: A General Equilibrium Analysis
Lutz, Stefan; Turrini, Alessandro Antonio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The effect of labour costs on industry profits, employment and labour income is at the heart of the current European debate on industry competitiveness. High wages paid in European countries such as Germany are generally considered harmful for industry profitability. Although, high wages also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124124
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Exporting and Firm Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Atkin, David; Khandelwal, Amit; Osman, Adam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after accounting for rug specifications. Second, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096097
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A Multi-Task Principal-Agent Approach to Organizational Form
Besanko, David; Régibeau, Pierre; Rockett, Katharine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
This paper studies the choice of organizational forms in a multi-task principal-agent model. We compare a functional organization in which the firm is organized into functional departments such as marketing and R&D to a product-based organization in which the firm is organized into product...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789163
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Disruptive Technologies and the Emergence of Competition
Adner, Ron; Zemsky, Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We formalize the phenomenon of disruptive technologies (Christensen, 1997) that initially serve isolated market niches and, as they mature, expand to displace established technologies from mainstream segments. Using a model of horizontal and vertical differentiation with discrete customer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791327
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The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Firms
Antràs, Pol; Fort, Teresa C; Tintelnot, Felix - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
multi-country sourcing model in which heterogeneous firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country …, selection into importing features complementarity across markets and firms' sourcing strategies follow a hierarchical structure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011145398
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Trade-Inducing Quality Standards for Used Durables
Clerides, Sofronis; Hadjiyiannis, Costas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
from this change while consumers lose out. Consumers in the importing country are the biggest beneficiaries, but domestic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005666635
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The Effect of Ownership and Competitive Pressure on Firm Performance in Transition Countries: Micro Evidence from Bulgaria, Romania and Poland
Angelucci, Manuela; Estrin, Saul; Konings, Jozef; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
market structures are associated with higher total factor productivity. These effects depend, however, on the ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005504242
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Competition And Firm Performance: Lessons From Russia
Brown, J David; Earle, John S - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The 'big-bang' liberalization of the inefficient Russian economy in 1992 provides a fruitful setting for analysing the impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyse 1992-1998 panel data on 14,961 enterprises covering 75 percent of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661595
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Competition, Corporate Governance: Substitutes or Complements? Evidence from the Warsaw Stock Exchange
Grosfeld, Irena; Tressel, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
the separate effects of competition and ownership concentration on firm level productivity growth. Next, we investigate … bias that could affect the productivity levels and productivity growth. Our results show that product market competition …-shaped relationship with performance. Firms with relatively dispersed and relatively concentrated ownership have higher productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661646