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Reproducing the Stylized Facts that Motivate Models of International Trade with Heterogeneous Firms Using the World Bank Enterprise Surveys

Riaño, Alejandro - 2023

This article shows how to use the publicy-available firm-level surveys produced by the World Bank Enterprise Surveys (WBES) to reproduce the stylized facts that characterize firm heterogeneity and its relationship with global engagement, as established by Bernard et al. (2007) for manufacturing...

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A Model of Supply Chain Finance

Hu, Bo; Watanabe, Makoto; Zhang, Jun - 2023

This article develops a model in which an intermediary uses a supply chain finance (SCF) program to fund suppliers. The … needs. We show that the intermediary optimally selects not only suppliers with positive profitability but also suppliers …

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The Limits of Marketplace Fee Discrimination

Tremblay, Mark J. - 2021

Platforms often use fee discrimination within their marketplace (e.g., Amazon, eBay, and Uber specify a variety of merchant fees). To better understand the impact of marketplace fee discrimination, we develop a model that allows us to determine equilibrium fee and category decisions that depend...

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Intermediaries in the Online Advertising Market

D'Annunzio, Anna; Russo, Antonio - 2021

intermediary to disclose consumer information to advertisers when auctioning ad impressions. We show that disclosing information … that enables advertisers to optimize the allocation of ads on multi-homing consumers is profitable to the intermediary only … outsource the sale of their ads to an intermediary, and relate these incentives to the extent of consumer multi-homing, the …

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Aggregate Properties of Open Economy Models with Expanding Varieties

Bhattarai, Saroj; Kucheryavyy, Konstantin - 2022

We present a unified dynamic framework to study the interconnections between international trade and business cycle models. We prove an aggregate equivalence between a competitive, representative firm model that has aggregate production externalities and dynamic trade models that feature...

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Corporate Taxation in Open Economies

Šauer, Radek - 2022

This paper analyzes the macroeconomic impact of corporate taxation. The analysis is conducted in a quantitative two-country model. In the first step, the paper describes the long-run effects of corporate taxation. A reduction in the corporate-income tax rate increases GDP, wages, consumption,...

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Credit Constraints, Quality, and Export Prices: Theory and Evidence from China

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - 2013

exports. The paper modifies Arkolakis's (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and …

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Technological Synergies, Heterogeneous Firms, and Idiosyncratic Volatility

Fernández-Villaverde, Jésus; Yu, Yang; Zanetti, Francesco - 2024

This paper shows the importance of technological synergies among heterogeneous firms for aggregate fluctuations. First, we document six novel empirical facts using microdata that suggest the existence of important technological synergies between trading firms, the presence of positive...

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Unilateral Environmental Policy and Offshoring

Bolz, Simon J.; Naumann, Fabrice; Richter, Philipp M. - 2024

Expanding on a general equilibrium model of offshoring, we analyze the effects of a unilateral emissions tax increase on the environment, income, and inequality. Heterogeneous firms allocate labor across production tasks and emissions abatement, while only the most productive can benefit from...

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Capital tax competition with heterogeneous firms and agglomeration effects

Burbidge, John; Cuff, Katherine; Leach, John - 2004

Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm...

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