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Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...
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This paper investigates the economic value of trade when prices of transportation services are endogenous to cross-market … transportation costs and market integration. We use this method to quantify the effect of endogenous transportation costs on the … endogenous, the LNG export benefit can drop by as much as 20-50% relative to the case of exogenous cost. …
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exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …
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It is widely believed that globalization affects the extent of employment and wage responses to economic shocks. To provide evidence for this, we analyze the effect of firms' exporting behavior on the elasticity of labor demand. Using rich, German administrative linked employer-employee panel...
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convenience of accessing a larger export market in the South. The gap persists even after controlling for known sources of …
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capital firm examines the difficulties of creating a venture capital market in a bank-based financial system. The analysis …), arguing that the existence of an active stock market is a necessary, but by no means sufficient condition for the development …
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After describing the essential features of the book market, a welfare analysis of the fixed book price agreement is … market is one of imperfect competition, but even so the cross-subsidy argument is unlikely to be valid. A qualitative …
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In this paper we compare the profitability of a merger to the profitability of a partial ownership arrangement and find that partial ownership arrangements can be more profitable for the acquiring and acquired firm because they can result in a greater dampening of competition. We also derive...
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long as the seller conserves. This contradiction implies that the market for conservation cannot be efficient and … conservation is likely to fail. A leasing market is inefficient for similar reasons and dominates the sales market if and only if …
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