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The life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational firms
Gumpert, Anna; Moxnes, Andreas; Ramondo, Natalia; … - 2017
This paper studies the life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational enterprises (MNEs). We present a dynamic model of trade and MNE activity in which the mode of serving a market depends on the well-known proximity-concentration tradeoff. We show that the option of performing MNE...
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FDI inflows and domestic firms : adjustments to new export opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - 2022
domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473693
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Imported-input trade liberalization and firms' export performance in China : theory and evidence
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Qi, Han - 2016
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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Betting on exports : trade and endogenous heterogeneity
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2015 - This draft: October 2015
We study the equilibrium determinants of firm-level heterogeneity in a model in which firms can affect the variance of their productivity draws at the entry stage and explore the implications in closed and open economy. By allowing firms to choose the size of their investment in innovation...
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IO for export(s)
Mrázová, Monika; Neary, J. Peter - 2019
We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...
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Fast fashion : theory and evidence from Portuguese textile and clothing firms
Fernandes, Ana; Tang, Heiwai - 2020
of Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) quotas on Chinese exports. The removal of quotas is associated with an increase in the … price and frequency of export transactions and with a reduction in average distance of firms' exports. We rationalize our … increase exports of high-quality products to nearby markets, while the less productive firms drop out from distant and low …
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Did partial globalization uncrease inequality? Did inequality stimulate globalization backlash? : the case of the Latin American periphery, 1950 - 80
Baten, Jörg - 2002
Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution uses a new measure of inequality: heigth inequality. It covers not only wage recipients, but also the self-employed, the unemployed, housewifes, children, and other groups who...
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Intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins in trade agreements
Ornelas, Emanuel; Tovar, Patricia - 2021
We study, theoretically and empirically, how countries choose intra-bloc tariffs and preferential margins when they form Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our model indicates that countries should set systematically lower preferential margins when the bloc takes the form of a free trade area...
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Manufacturing revolutions : industrial policy and industrialization in South Korea
Lane, Nathan - 2024
I study the impact of industrial policy on industrial development by considering an important episode during the East Asian miracle: South Korea’s heavy and chemical industry (HCI) drive, 1973–1979. Based on newly assembled data, I use the introduction and termination of industrial policies...
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Trade and industrial policy of transition economies
Gonzales, José Luis Moraga; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2001
Trade reforms in transition economies are analyzed in a model of trade and vertical product differentiation. We first show that trade liberalization in transition economies reduces the local firm s output and raises the prices of all variants. Second, we find that neither free trade nor the...
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