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Explaining the Size Differences of Exporter Productivity Premia : Theory and Evidence

Geishecker, Ingo - 2014

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to the data. We derive the sectoral EPP in a standard heterogeneous firms trade model and apply the insights from the model to 13 years of data for all Danish manufacturing firms....

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Unraveling Firms : Demand, Productivity and Markups Heterogeneity

Forlani, Emanuele - 2016

key firm-level outcomes: export status and size …

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International Trade Integration : A Disaggregated Approach

Chen, Natalie - 2013

This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...

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Short Run Gravity

Anderson, James E. - 2017

Short run gravity is a geometric weighted average of long run gravity and bilateral capacity. The model features (i) joint trade costs endogenous to bilateral volumes, (ii) long run gravity as a limiting case of efficient investment in bilateral capacities, (iii) a structural ratio of short run...

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What Makes Brain Drain More Likely? Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa?

Meango, Romuald - 2017

In Sub-Saharan Africa, high-skilled workers are 13 times more likely to migrate than low-skilled ones. This sheer number has fueled fears about “Brain Drain” as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration prospects might give incentives to invest in schooling, it...

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Measuring the Integration of Staple Food Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa : Heterogeneous Infrastructure and Cross Border Trade in the East African Community

Ihle, Rico - 2015

This analysis employs cointegration methods and semiparametric regression in order to assess the integration of maize markets and the factors determining national and cross-national transmission of price signals in Sub-Saharan Africa. We use a rich dataset of 16 series of wholesale maize prices...

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Resource Rents, Democracy and Corruption : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Arezki, Rabah - 2013

We examine the effect of the interaction between resource rents and democracy on corruption for a panel of 29 Sub-Saharan countries during the period from 1985 to 2007. We find that higher resource rents lead to more corruption and that the effect is significantly stronger in less democratic...

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The Democratic Window of Opportunity : Evidence from Riots in Sub-Saharan Africa

Aidt, Toke - 2014

We show that drought-induced changes in the intensity of riots lead to moves towards democracy in sub-Saharan Africa, and that these changes are often a result of concessions made as a result of the riots. This provides evidence that low-intensity conflict can have a substantial short-run impact...

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Spatial Concentration of Military Dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977-2007)

Caruso, Raul - 2014

We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...

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International Commodity Prices and Civil War Outbreak : New Evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa and Beyond

Ciccone, Antonio - 2018

wars. The reason is that I calculate commodity price shocks using time-invariant (fixed) export shares as commodity weights …. Bazzi and Blattman also calculate commodity price shocks using export shares as commodity weights but the exports shares … they use are time-varying. Using time-invariant export shares as commodity weights ensures that time variation in price …

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