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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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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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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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Offshoring and firm overlap
Capuano, Stella; Egger, Hartmut; Koch, Michael; … - 2017
We set up a model of offshoring with heterogeneous producers that captures two empirical regularities of German offshoring firms. There is selection of larger, more productive firms into offshoring. However, the selection is not sharp, and offshoring and non-offshoring firms coexist over a wide...
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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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Trade liberalization along the firm size distribution : the case of the EU-South Korea FTA
Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2021
In 2011, the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) entered into force. With its focus on non-tariff barriers (NTBs), it is a leading example of a deep new generation agreement. Using detailed French customs data for the period 2000 to 2016, we investigate how exporters of different size...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397180
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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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The elasticity of trade : estimates and evidence
Simonovska, Ina; Waugh, Michael E. - 2011
Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...
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