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This paper provides an empirical analysis of the effects of new product versus process innovations on export propensity at the firm level. Product innovation is a key factor for successful market entry in models of creative destruction and Schumpeterian growth. Process innovation helps securing...
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We develop a simple two-country model of international trade that assumes that there is a fixed cost of doing international trade. We show that this leads to multiple equilibria that can be Pareto-ranked. We examine the stability properties of these equilibria
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-market price spreads. This is relevant for liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports. LNG transportation capacity is limited in the short … capture part of the price spread. We proceed to develop a method to value LNG exports under conditions of endogenous … value of LNG exports from the US to Japan. Our analysis shows that when transportation costs are correctly treated as …
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. Therefore, the current trend of reduction in tariffs on agricultural exports not only generates a positive welfare effect in the …
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We study how harmonization of corporate tax systems affects the stability of international cartels. We show that tax base harmonization reinforces collusive agreements, while harmonization of corporate tax rates may destabilize or stabilize cartels. We also find that bilateral and full...
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. We divide old-age life into two periods with uncertain survival from the end of the first to the end of the second. We … show that a rise in the survival rate causes different patterns of change in annuitization, depending on the initial … survival rate. When the initial survival rate is low (high), there is full (partial) annuitization. There is thus an inverse …
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observed distribution of sales. I calibrate the model parameters that determine firm dynamics by looking at the exit rates of a …
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This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual property rights are probabilistic. I develop a simple model of oligopolistic competition to compare two main liability doctrines that have been used in the US to assess...
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Rethinking the foundations of Heckscher-Ohlin theory when countries have different technologies, this paper shows how to make the proper adjustments for international productivity differences. The central tool is a factor conversion matrix that computes the local factor content of foreign...
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This paper analyzes international antitrust enforcement when multinational firms operate in several markets with antitrust authorities in each market. We are concerned with how the sustainability of collusion in one local market is affected by the existence of collusion in other markets when...
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