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Go wide or go deep : margins of new trade flows
Erhardt, Katharina; Gupta, Apoorva - 2024
customers. To understand firms’ export strategies, we analyse new trade flows – new seller-buyer-product combinations – of …-wide (introducing new products) and going-deep (reaching new buyers for existing products), we find that the dominant margin of export … rate shock and show that going-deep is more pronounced as an export strategy when a firm’s effective market size is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046277
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Information constraints and technology efficiency : field experiments benchmarking firms website performance
Adem, Anwar; Kneller, Richard; Li, Cher - 2023
This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies, focusing on business websites. Through two natural field experiments in the UK, we provide firms with benchmarked performance information on their websites. The experimental designs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014284795
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Workers without borders? : culture, migration and the political limits to globalization
Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun W. - 2010
there exists a broad political failure that results in inefficiently high barriers restricting the import of temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938184
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The economic value of cultural diversity : Evidence from US Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2004
We use data on wages and rents in different U.S. cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404281
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Culture, diversity, and the welfare state
Gründler, Klaus; Köllner, Sebastian - 2018
We show that culture and diversity strongly influence welfare systems around the globe. To disentangle culture from institutions, we employ regional instruments as well as data on the prevalence of the pathogen Toxoplasma Gondii, linguistic differences, and the frequency of blood types. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789109
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The impact of the prehistoric out-of-Africa migration on cultural diversity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Wainstock, Daniel … - 2023 - Original version: April 2023, this version: May 2023
Evidence suggests that the prehistoric Out of Africa Migration has impacted the degree of intra-population genetic and phenotypic diversity across the globe. This paper provides the first evidence that this migration has shaped cultural diversity. Leveraging a folklore catalogue of 958 oral...
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Incentive schemes for local government : theory and evidence from comprehensive performance assessment in England
Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco - 2011
This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...
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Productivity and the decision to import and export : theory and evidence
Kasahara, Hiroyuki (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003647251
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Gotcha! : a profile of smuggling in international trade
Berger, Helge (contributor); Nitsch, Volker (contributor) - 2008
interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … source country deviates from the reported import value in the destination country. Analyzing 4-digit product level data for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790986
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Impact of European food safety border inspections on agri-food exports : evidence from Chinese firms
Beestermöller, Matthias; Disdier, Anne-Célia; … - 2016
. We combine information on rejections with Chinese firm-level export data. Border rejections amplify the turnover among …
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