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Quantifying consumer taste in trade : evidence from the food industry

Aw, Bee-yan; Lee, Yi; Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2023

This paper develops an empirical model of consumer taste in twenty-nine Belgium food industries for the period from 1998-2005 to generate a "taste distance" measure of over 1,800 ﬁrm-product exports to 53 country destinations. We estimate consumer taste using a control function approach and...

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Heterogeneous firms and international trade : the role of productivity and financial fragility

Assenza, Tiziana; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grazzini, Jakob; … - 2016

Starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) explains why individual … productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to export. In this paper we build a model along Melitz's lines to show … international markets. We show that firms with low productivity may still be able to penetrate foreign markets provided they have …

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All-around trade liberalization and firm-level employment : theory and evidence from China

Rodríguez López, Antonio; Yu, Miaojie - 2017

job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …

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Sequential exporting across countries and products

Albornoz, Facundo; Calvo Pardo, Héctor F.; Corcos, Gregory - 2021

How do exporters expand their product scope and geographical presence? We argue that new exporters are uncertain about their profitability in different countries and products, but learn it as they start to export. As a consequence, exporters add products and countries sequentially, in an...

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International trade with heterogeneous firms : theory and evidence

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2021

International trade is dominated by a small number of very large firms. Models of trade with heterogeneous firms have been developed to study the causes and consequences of this observation. The canonical model of trade with heterogeneous firms shows that trade leads to between-firm...

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Trade, technology, and productivity : a study of Brazilian manufacturers, 1986-1998

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2004

inward trade barriers affect productivity. The production function of Brazilian manufacturers is estimated at the ISIC3 two …-digit level under various alternatives, including an extension of Olley and Pakes' (1996) procedure. Firm-level productivity is … inferred and then related to trade. Findings suggest that (1) foreign competition pressures firms to raise productivity …

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Intermediate goods trade, technology choice and productivity

Peng, Shin Kun; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2015

output and average productivity, with stronger positive productivity effects for newly imported intermediate inputs. However …

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Let their knowledge flow : the effect of returning refugees on export performance in the former yugoslavia

Bahar, Dany; Hauptmann, Andreas; Özgüzel, Cem; … - 2018

During the early 1990s Germany received over half a million Yugoslavian refugees fleeing war. By 2000, many of these refugees, who were under temporary protection, had been repatriated. We exploit this historical episode to provide causal evidence on the role that migrants play explaining export...

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What does trade openness measure?

Fujii, Eiji - 2017 - This version: September 7, 2017

segmented diverse countries around the world. The information it conveys is better characterized as the extent of the economic …

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On the widely differing effects of free trade agreements : lessons from twenty years of trade integration

Baier, Scott L.; Yotov, Yoto; Zylkin, Thomas - 2016

We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...

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