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, suggesting that heterogeneity in factor shares is crucial to understand how firms react to trade liberalization …
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This paper studies how cross-country differences in labor market institutions shape the pattern of international trade … specific skill-intensive sectors through both the intensive and extensive margins of trade. I then estimate returns to firm … effects of labor market institutions on both margins of trade …
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The recent availability of trade data at a firm-product-country level calls for a new generation of models able to …
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This paper will assess the importance of internal firm resources in overcoming sunk entry costs associated with export. When firms are not able to raise additional external funds for investments, they are credit-constrained, and in such a case, new exporters have to rely on their internal...
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We merge German balance-of-payments and foreign-affiliate-trade statistics to obtain data about trade in commercial …
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this claim both theoretically and empirically in the context of international trade. We develop a heterogeneous firm model …) cross-product relation between vertical (horizontal) differentiation and the prevalence of trade intermediation …
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A large body of literature in International Economics has analysed the impact of increased import competition on domestic firms. The link between firm-level exports and changes in the competitive environment on foreign markets is less well understood, however. This is despite the fact that...
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to distinguish the different sourcing modes. We study the firms-, country- and product-determinants of intra-firm trade …
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This paper develops a two-sector, two-factor trade model with labor market frictions in which workers search for a job … also when they are employed. On the job search (OJS) is a key ingredient to explain the response to trade liberalization of … from less productive firms that pay lower wages to more productive ones. Following a trade liberalization the traditional …
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This research sheds light on the role of multinational production on the type of innovation performed by firms. We construct matched firm-patent data to measure the scope of innovation, that is the extent to which the output of R&D can be spread across different product lines. We focus on two...
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