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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...

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Understanding rig rates

Osmundsen, Petter; Rosendahl, Knut Einar; Skjerpen, Terje - 2013

We examine the largest cost component in offshore development projects, drilling rates, which have been high in recent years. To our knowledge, rig rates have not been analysed empirically before in the economic literature. Using econometric analysis, we examine the effects of gas and oil...

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Do markets erode social responsibility?

Bartling, Björn; Weber, Roberto A. - 2013

This paper studies the stability of socially responsible behavior in markets. We develop a laboratory product market in which low-cost production creates a negative externality for third parties, but where alternative production with higher costs entirely mitigates the externality. Our data...

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Cost- and price dynamics of solar PV modules

Reichelstein, Stefan; Sahoo, Anshuman - 2015

This paper develops a model framework and a corresponding empirical inference procedure for estimating long-run marginal cost in industries where production costs decline over time. In the context of the solar photovoltaic module industry, we rely on firm-level financial accounting data to...

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When backward integration by a dominant firm improves welfare

Linnemer, Laurent - 2002

This paper studies the welfare consequences of a vertical merger that raises rivals costs when downstream competition is à la Cournot between firms with constant asymmetric marginal costs. The main result is that such a vertical merger can nevertheless improve welfare if it involves a...

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Understanding cost pass-through when prices are dispersed

Garrod, Luke; Li, Ruochen; Russo, Antonio; Wilson, … - 2025

There is limited theoretical understanding of cost pass-through within markets where prices are dispersed. Under a general demand function, we analyse the effects of cost changes in a seminal model of price dispersion, where some consumers are captive to particular sellers while others are not...

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Quantifying consumer taste in trade : evidence from the food industry

Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2023

This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 ﬁrm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and...

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Committing to grow : privatizations and firm dynamics in East Germany

Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2023

decisions, increased productivity, and higher exit rates. Our empirical analysis, using a novel dataset and instrumental … annual productivity growth, and a 3.6% points higher probability of exit for firms with binding employment targets. Our …. Additionally, an alternative policy of productivity investment subsidies proved costly and less effective in the short term. …

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Production function estimation with multi-destination firms

Barrows, Geoffrey; Ollivier, Hélène; Reshef, Ariell - 2023

We develop a procedure to estimate production functions, elasticities of demand, and productivity when firms …

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Regional productivity differences in the UK and France : from the micro to the macro

Kauma, Bridget; Mion, Giordano - 2024

of the evolution of aggregate UK and French productivity and markups: 2) Analyse the spatial distribution of productivity …) for France – while focusing on the role of economic density. Our findings suggest that differences in firm productivity … across regions are magnified in the aggregate by an increasing productivity return of density along the productivity …

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