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Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012

This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...

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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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Credit constraints, quality, and export prices : theory and evidence from China

Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao - 2013

This paper examines the relationship between the credit constraints faced by a firm and the unit value prices of its exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and credit constraints. The model predicts that tighter...

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

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014

evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...

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Urban-Biased Structural Change

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

aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … growth of large services firms in the densest urban areas, boosting services productivity and services exports, but also land …

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Learning to export from neighbors

Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2014

This paper studies how learning from neighboring firms affects new exporters' performance and dynamics. We develop a statistical decision model in which a firm updates its prior belief about demand of a foreign market based on the number of neighbors currently selling there, the level and...

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Fixed export costs and export behavior

Castro, Luis; Li, Ben; Maskus, Keith E.; Xie, Yiqing - 2014

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export …, while those with higher productivity export more. These outcomes are the foundation of the widely-used sorting mechanism in … the trade models with firm heterogeneity. A particular and novel finding is that high-productivity nonexporters face …

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Explaining the size differences of exporter productivity premia : theory and evidence

Geishecker, Ingo; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2014

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

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Productivity and the decision to import and export : theory and evidence

Kasahara, Hiroyuki (contributor); … - 2008

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