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Financial Development and Export Concentration

Unger, Florian - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller …

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Pennies from Haven : Wages and Profit Shifting

Alstadsæter, Annette; Bjørkheim, Julie Brun; Davies, … - 2022

Increasing attention has been given to the fact that some multinational enterprises shift income to tax haven countries, an activity that generates inequality in corporate taxation. Here, we examine how profit shifting relates to wage inequality. Using rich matched employer-employee data from...

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Firms' Exports, Volatility and Skills : Evidence from France

Bas, Maria - 2019

’ export activity and job stability across employment skills. Relying on detailed firm-level data from France for the period … 1996-2007, we show that firms with higher export intensity exhibit a lower volatility of skilled labor demand relative to … provide evidence on the causal effect of the export performance of the firm on the volatility of employment of different …

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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics

Mrazova, Monika - 2019

We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of demand in monopolistic competition. Applications include a new “CREMR” demand function (Constant Revenue Elasticity of Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for...

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Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation : Evidence from U.S. Patents

Autor, David H. - 2019

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate owners, we quantify how...

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Harmonization and Interpretation of the Ifo Business Survey's Micro Data

Link, Sebastian - 2019

Every month, the ifo Business Survey (IBS) asks a representative set of 9000 German firms about their current and expected economic conditions. Thus, the micro data of the IBS are ideally suited to study various aspects of firm behavior. However, methodological heterogeneities between different...

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On the Representativeness of the ifo Business Survey

Hiersemenzel, Magdolna; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2022

The monthly ifo Business Survey is the basis for numerous economic indicators, such as the ifo Business Climate Index Germany. Moreover, the anonymized micro data can be used for a wide range of research projects. In order to obtain robust results, the panel of survey participants must be large...

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Who Reports the Mood in German Boardrooms? Evidence from the Ifo Business Survey

Hennrich, Jonas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

The ifo Business Climate Index for Germany is considered as the most important leading indicator for the German economy. Media reports often refer to the mood in German boardrooms. Based on a survey conducted in May 2023, we show that most of the around 9,000 respondents to the monthly ifo...

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The (Structural) Gravity of Epidemics

Cuñat, Alejandro - 2020

Epidemiological models assume gravity-like interactions of individuals across space without microfoundations. We combine a simple epidemiological frame-work with a dynamic model of individual location choice. The model predicts that flows of people across space obey a structural gravity...

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Gravity Without Apology : The Science of Elasticities, Distance, and Trade

Carrère, Céline - 2020

Gravity as both fact and theory is one of the great success stories of recent research on international trade, and has featured prominently in the policy debate over Brexit. We first review the facts, noting the overwhelming evidence that trade tends to fall with distance. We then introduce some...

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