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Are Trade Preferences a Panacea? The African Growth and Opportunity Act and African Exports
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2019
Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …
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IO for Export(s)
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858197
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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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Cooperation in a Fragmented Society : Experimental Evidence on Syrian Refugees and Natives in Lebanon
Drouvelis, Michalis - 2020
Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter-group behavior of Syrian refugees and Lebanese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843423
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Asset Level Heterogeneity, Competition and Export Incentives : The Role of Credit Rationing
Marjit, Sugata - 2020
heterogeneity and export incentive through credit market imperfection over the life cycle of a firm remains largely unaddressed in … the literature. This paper studies the dynamics of wealth heterogeneity and export incentive of credit rationed firms … implies greater export incentive. However, over the life cycle of a firm, the role of competition is impacted by the intensity …
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How Do Immigrants Promote Exports? Networks, Knowledge, Diversity
Orefice, Gianluca; Rapoport, Hillel; Santoni, Gianluca - 2021
How does immigration affect export performance? To answer this question we propose a unified empirical framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212263
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Trade Protection and the Role of Non-Tariff Barriers
Kinzius, Luisa - 2019
A growing share of modern trade policy instruments is shaped by non-tariff barriers (NTBs). Based on a structural gravity equation and the recently updated Global Trade Alert database, we empirically investigate the effect of NTBs on imports. Our analysis reveals that the implementation of NTBs...
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Quantifying Disruptive Trade Policies
Balistreri, Edward J. - 2019
Mainstream economic wisdom favoring cooperative free trade is challenged by a wave of disruptive trade policies. In this paper, we provide quantitative evidence concerning the economic impacts of tariffs implemented by the United States in 2018 and the subsequent retaliations by partner...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892204
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Preferential Trade Liberalization with Endogenous Cartel Discipline : Implications for Welfare and Optimal Trade Policies
Agnosteva, Delina - 2020
We consider an international cartel whose members interact repeatedly in their own as well as in third-country segmented markets. Cartel discipline-an inverse measure of the degree of competition between firms-is endogenously determined by the cartel's incentive compatibility constraint (ICC),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822505
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China's Overinvestment and International Trade Conflict
Schnabl, Gunther - 2019
sustainability of China's investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant … necessitated export subsidies to clear markets. The overinvestment boom is argued to have ended around 2014. Since then, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866404