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In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...
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We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product differentiation. Industry-specific demand and cost linkages induce a distinction between the returns to innovation. In differentiated...
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In this paper, we provide evidence that expanding firms tend to serve new markets which are geographically close and culturally related to their prior export destinations. We quantify the impact of this spatial pattern using a Chinese firm-level data set. To ensure an exogenous set of potential...
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growing trading partners, (iii) increased demand for capital goods, and (iv) regionalized production of goods (e.g. off … capital goods …
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cognitive, but not on affective well-being, which we interpret as a loss in identity utility. Living in a partnership …
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transfers over this period is taken into account. We show that the increase in capital's share of total income and the presence … of capital-entrepreneurial skill complementarity are two key features that help support the wages of ordinary workers as …
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cycle model with state contingent debt, capital-skill complementarity, endogenous skill formation and stochastic shocks to … public consumption as well as total factor and capital equipment productivity. Our main finding is that an empirically …
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This paper investigates the conditions under which partial harmonization for capital taxation is sustained in a … repeated interactions model of tax competition when there are three countries with heterogenous capital endowments. We show … harmonization is sustainable or not crucially depends on the extent to which the capital endowment of the medium-sized country is …
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We introduce permanently-shifting income shares into a standard growth model with two types of agents. Capital owners … replicate the observed U.S. time paths of the top quintile income share, capital’s share of income, and key macroeconomic … variables over the period 1970 to 2013. For the baseline simulation, the welfare gain for capital owners is 3.7% of per …
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elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This is inconsistent with the Uzawa Growth Theorem. We extend Uzawa …'s theorem to show that introducing human capital accumulation in the standard way does not resolve the puzzle. However, balanced … growth is possible if education is endogenous and capital is more complementary with schooling than with raw labor. We …
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