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Recent trade theory in the Krugman (1980) tradition predicts that countries with larger market size enjoy higher levels … spending on inputs is affected by trade costs. However, in cross-country data, there is no such positive correlation between … is implicitly assumed in the usual formulation of aggregate CES production functions. Whether trade liberalization …
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favors the country that supplies the most liquid assets. In such a setting, trade liberalization magnifies the gap in …
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This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm … larger ones, suggesting important within-industry reallocation effects. Moreover, we find evidence for trade deflection as AD …
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We extend structural gravity models of bilateral trade flows to oligopolistic competition. We show that conventional … gravity estimates do not only reflect trade costs but also market power. Our simple estimation procedure generalizes the … standard gravity model and disentangles exogenous trade frictions and endogenous market power distortions. We use our estimated …
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inequality in one country creates price divergence between trading countries. Lower inequality not only further decreases trade … poorer individuals and, in specific circumstances, on the whole population. In an open economy with free trade, lower income …
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We develop a procedure to estimate production functions, elasticities of demand, and productivity when firms endogenously select into multiple destination markets where they compete imperfectly, and when researchers observe output denominated only in value. We show that ignoring the...
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In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...
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We develop a heterogeneous-firms model with trade in goods, labor mobility and credit constraints due to moral hazard … trade liberalization. While the former leads to more dispersion of economic activity across space, the latter tends to drive … of economic activity with information on the access to credit and the dependence on external finance. Our estimates for …
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The recent literature on firm-to-firm trade has documented salient empirical regularities of the buyer-seller network …
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-parametric formulas, we measure how trade modifies the deadweight loss of markups through two channels: (1) trade-induced change in markup … zero-sum welfare effects similar to implicit tariffs that tilt the terms of trade in favor of countries exporting high … compile new data on global profit ownership. Our findings reveal that trade has greatly reshaped the global incidence of …
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