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Sequential Exporting Across Countries and Products

Albornoz, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Héctor F.; Corcos, Gregory - 2021

their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters …, we find empirical support consistent with such a mechanism, where firms learn from their initial export experiences and …

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Technology Gaps, Trade and Income

Sampson, Thomas - 2019

where R&D efficiency varies across countries and productivity differences emerge from firm-level technology investments. The … with higher R&D efficiency are richer and have comparative advantage in more innovation-dependent industries where the … advantage of backwardness is lower and knowledge spillovers are more localized. I estimate R&D efficiency by country and …

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Telecommunication Submarine-Cable Deployment and the Digital Divide in Sub-Saharan Africa

Cariolle, Joel - 2020

The recent deployment of fibre-optic submarine cables (SMCs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) raised the prospects for the digital economy expansion and the whole sub-continent take-off, but also exposed countries and populations to new sources of vulnerability. This paper provides empirical evidence...

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Cumulative Climate Shocks and Migratory Flows : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Falco, Salvatore; B. Kis, Anna; Viarengo, Martina - 2022

We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...

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Electricity and Firm Productivity : A General-Equilibrium Approach

Fried, Stephie; Lagakos, David - 2022

Many policymakers view power outages as a major constraint on firm productivity in developing countries. Yet empirical studies find modest short-run effects of outages on firm performance. This paper builds a dynamic macroeconomic model to study the long-run general-equilibrium effects of power...

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Firm size and monetary policy transmission: evidence from German business survey data

Ehrmann, Michael - 2004

Using business survey data on German manufacturing firms, this paper provides tests for hypotheses formulated in capital market imperfection theories that predict distributional effects in the transmission of monetary policy. The business conditions of small firms are found to be somewhat more...

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Heavyweights - the impact of large businesses on productivity growth

Falck, Oliver - 2007

The idea of an industrial policy that promotes large businesses - heavyweights - as the best way to compete in a globalized world has become, again, en vogue among European politicians. The only apparent controversy about the idea revolves around whether it is better to promote national...

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Market Size and Number of Firms with New Technology

Marjit, Sugata; Dastidar, Krishnendu Ghosh; Das, Gouranga - 2022

In this paper, unlike the conventional wisdom, we demonstrate that the relationship between the size of the market and number of firms would be non-monotonic. While moderate rise in the size would force the local firms to exit and only the foreign firm rules, substantial rise in the size would...

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The Origins of Firm Heterogeneity : A Production Network Approach

Bernard, Andrew B. - 2019

This paper quantifies the origins of firm size heterogeneity when firms are interconnected in a production network. Using the universe of buyer-supplier relationships in Belgium, the paper develops a set of stylized facts that motivate a model in which firms buy inputs from upstream suppliers...

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The Political Economy of Too-Big-To-Fail

Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2019

I consider a two-period model in which being "too big" is only a necessary condition for an insolvent firm to receive a government bailout because, in addition to meeting a threshold asset size, the firm must engage in a lobbying contest in order to be bailed out. The firm has a political...

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