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How to deal with missing observations in surveys of professional forecasters
Bürgi, Constantin - 2023
Survey forecasts are prone to entry and exit of forecasters as well as forecasters not contributing every period …
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One nation, one language? : domestic language diversity, trade and welfare
Gurevich, Tamara; Herman, Peter; Toubal, Farid; Yotov, Yoto - 2021
Using new data on linguistic diversity across and within countries, we examine novel channels though which language affects trade patterns and economic welfare. We find that linguistic similarity within a country accounts for about 10 percent of estimated "home bias", demonstrating the...
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Corporate Social Responsibility along the global value chain
Herkenhoff, Philipp; Krautheim, Sebastian; Semrau, Finn Ole - 2021
Firms are under increasing pressure to meet stakeholders’ demand for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) along their global value chains. We study the incentives for and investments in CSR at different stages of the production process. We analyze a model of sequential production with...
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The theory of the firm goes global
Marin, Dalia - 2013
What insights can be gained from bringing the theory of the firm to the global economy? I discuss several new features of the world economy that can be explained by incorporating the theory of the firm into the theory of international trade. Among the new features I discuss are the move to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212368
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Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers, and productivity
Chen, Cheng; Steinwender, Claudia - 2019
When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has received ample theoretical attention, empirical evidence...
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei (contributor); Maskus, Keith E. (contributor) - 2008
technology chooses either exports or technology transfer through licensing as its mode of supplying the Southern market, based on … increasing its exports. Welfare in the South would rise (fall) if that country has high (low) absorptive capacity. Excessively … transfer sustains these basic messages. -- Intellectual property rights ; technology transfer ; exports …
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The extensive margin of exporting products : a firm-level analysis
Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2010
multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the … firm-product heterogeneity with entry costs that depend on exporter scope. Estimating this model for the within-firm sales … distribution we identify the nature and components of product entry costs. We find that firms face a strong decline in product …
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The collapse speed of China's exports in the 2008-2009 financial crisis
Jing, Ran - 2011
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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The dynamics of comparative advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Lind, Nelson; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2015
has noted a tendency for countries to concentrate exports in a few sectors. We show that this concentration arises from a …
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Closer look at revealed comparative advantage : gross-versus value added trade flows
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - This version: April 2015
added data do not provide the same information. Although gross exports crosses national borders and is the target of trade … the distributions of Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) in terms of gross exports and value added for 40 countries. A … Systematic comparison of these distributions shows that the distributions of RCA calculated with gross exports and value added …
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