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We study the effect of subsidies subject to export share requirements (ESR) that is, conditioned on a firm exporting at … provides greater protection for domestic firms than a standard unconditional export subsidy, albeit at a substantial welfare …
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the data. Exploring the determinants of Canada‘s tariff cuts at the 8 digit HS product level, we find that CUSFTA acted as …
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This paper studies loan activity in a context where banks must follow Basel Accord-type rules and acquire financing from households. Loan activity typically decreases when entrepreneurs' investment returns decline, and we study which type of policy could revigorate an economy in a trough. We...
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incentives by firms. Using a large panel data set of workplaces in Canada, our identification strategy relies on exogenous …
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instrument is worse from a welfare standpoint than a standard export subsidy, partly because it increases protection of the …
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This paper evaluates the effect on firm-level export outcomes of the Cash Incentive Scheme for Exports program provided … subsidy is available to firms exporting a select group of products, and requires firms to export to countries other than India …. Overall, the subsidy has not produced a significant impact on firm-level export values, prices, quantities, or their growth …
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This paper presents a dynamic model of risk-averse producers' decision to invest in physical capital and to export. The … model features irreversible investment, no capital markets and fixed and sunk costs to export. Several features of the … distribution of investment rates and export participation patterns observed in firm-level data are closely matched in a calibration …
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I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports or local sales from an affiliated plant. When contracts between two agents within a firm are too costly to write, the share of multinational firms may be higher or lower...
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. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …
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productivity with a shape parameter that depends on industry-level characteristics. A novel result is that export opportunities, by …, namely, that export opportunities increase firm heterogeneity by fostering innovation …
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