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Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis; Perroni, Carlo; Wong, … - 2023

Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over the last few decades has been urban-biased: structural change has been more pronounced in areas with higher population density. This bias can be accounted for by the location...

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Employee spinouts, social networks, and family firms

Rauch, James E. - 2013

Recently collected data show that, within any manufacturing industry, vertically integrated firms tend to have larger, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a weak contracting environment characteristic of...

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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014

Do firms in developing countries shift trade towards developed economies as a result of high economic growth? The matched customs-manufacturing firm data used in this study confront this hypothesized link with empirical evidence. Our analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share...

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International trade integration : a disaggregated approach

Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2009

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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A model of trade with Ricardian comparative advantage and intra-sectoral firm heterogeneity

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Qi, Han - 2011

In this paper, we merge the heterogenous firm trade model of Melitz (2003) with the Ricardian model of Dornbusch, Fisher and Samuelson (DFS 1977) to explain how the pattern of international specialization and trade is determined by the interaction of comparative advantage, economies of scale,...

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Multiproduct mergers and the product mix in domestic and foreign markets

Chan, Jackie M.L.; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022

This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of post-merger efficiency improvements to reveal a new margin of adjustment along the product dimension. We analyze horizontal mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic...

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Short run gravity

Anderson, James E.; Yotov, Yoto V. - 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 effcient investment in bilateral capacities, (iii) a structural ratio of short run...

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Effects of US inflation on Hong Kong and Singapore

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Yuen, Jude - 2002

this paper, we examine how inflation rates in two small open economies, namely Hong Kong and Singapore, interact with those … model is used to study the inflation dynamics. It is found that Hong Kong and Singapore inflation rates, but not the U ….S. one, respond to the error correction term. Compared with Singapore, the Hong Kong inflation rate is more responsive to U …

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Concentration and market size : lower bound estimates for the Brazilian industry

Resende, Marcelo (contributor) - 2008

The paper estimates the lower bound for market concentration taking as reference the framework advanced by Sutton (1991). Quantile regression methods were considered in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry in 2005 and separate estimates were obtained for exogenous and endogenous...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003772219

Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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