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The literature on trade liberalization has recently shifted its attention from trade liberalization in imported final goods to studying the effects of trade liberalization in imported intermediate inputs. This emphasis fits very well the trade liberalization experience of China following its...
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We construct a two-sector model -- one producing a homogeneous good and the other producing differentiated goods -- with labor market frictions to study the impact of offshoring on intrafirm, intrasectoral, and intersectoral reallocation of jobs, and on the economy-wide unemployment rate. A...
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We examine how foreign ownership of a firm affects the variety of goods that the firm exports and the number of … exports and take this model to data from Germany, one of the leading actors on the world market for goods. In line with …
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Applying the methodology developed by Duranton and Overman (2005, 2008), we analyze localization and dispersion of firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our...
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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...
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multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the …
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I show in this paper that incomplete contracts affect a firm's decision about serving foreign customers through exports …
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We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...
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This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008—2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at … which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP … growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …
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diversity of exports. Direct sales maintain a firm's unique product characteristics (‘brand equity'), whereas trade through an …
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