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We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff liberalization between the European Union and...
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This paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market … 1986/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains in the period to 1994, which were accompanied by large falls …
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This paper studies the life-cycle dynamics of exporters and multinational enterprises (MNEs). We present a dynamic model of trade and MNE activity in which the mode of serving a market depends on the well-known proximity-concentration tradeoff. We show that the option of performing MNE...
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We explore how the competitive pressure of imports affects productivity, at the firm level. There are two conflicting … effects of import-competition: the pro-competitive effect fosters productivity, while the direct effect hinders it. The pro … productivity gap, the firm shuts down. Here, a temporary tariff sways the firm to fight, and ensures survival, which is welfare …
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