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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766
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Different Antidumping Legislations within the WTO : What Can We Learn from China's Varying Market Economy Status?
Sandkamp, Alexander - 2020
This paper examines how varying antidumping methodologies applied within the WTO differ in the extent to which they reduce targeted exports. We show that antidumping duties, on average, hit Chinese exporters harder than those of other targeted countries. This difference can be traced back in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828984
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Vertical Specialization, International Task Fragmentation, and Convergence
Marjit, Sugata; Oladi, Reza - 2021
In this paper, we construct an elaborate general equilibrium model with a continuum of production fragments for an intermediate good, then embed it in a growth model to address the effects of global production fragmentation, vertical specialization and trade on growth and inequality for a small...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314672
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … industry. Using firm level data from China, we document that wholesalers play no such role for direct importers. However, other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179786
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Growing like China : firm performance and global production line position
Chor, Davin; Manova, Kalina; Yu, Zhihong - 2020 - Version of August, 2020
matched firm-level customs and manufacturing survey data, together with Input-Output tables for China, to examine how Chinese … firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm … production stages conducted in China over the 1992-2014 period, both in the aggregate and within firms over time. Firms span more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012501399
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265992
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Vertical product differentiation when quality is unobservable to buyers
Orosel, Gerhard O.; Zauner, Klaus G. - 2004
We analyze vertical product differentiation in a model where a good's quality is unobservable to buyers before purchase, a continuum of quality levels is technologically feasible, and minimum quality is supplied under competitive conditions. After purchase the true quality of the good is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261256
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The Tradeoff between Indirect Network Effects and Product Differentiation in a Decarbonized Transport Market
Andreassen, Gøril L. - 2020
What factors determine whether it is optimal with one or more technologies in a decarbonized road transport sector, and what policies should governments choose? We investigate these questions theoretically and numerically through a static, partial equilibrium model for the road transport market....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833722
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A Theory of Monopolistic Competition with Horizontally Heterogeneous Consumers
Kokovin, Sergey G. - 2020
Our novel approach to modeling monopolistic competition with heterogeneous consumers involves a space of characteristics of a differentiated good (consumers' ideal points), alike Hotelling (1929). Firms have heterogeneous costs à la Melitz (2003). In addition to price setting, each firm also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841747
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Skills Scarcity and Export Intensity
Perroni, Carlo - 2019
productivity differentials: in equilibrium, firms that employ workers with comparatively scarcer skills, other things equal, export …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861386