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International trade with firm heterogeneity in factor shares

Namini, Julian Emami - 2012

This paper presents a trade model with capital and labor as factors of production. The main contribution of this paper is that it considers a new type of firm heterogeneity, which is empirically relevant: firms in this paper differ with respect to their factor shares in production. Therefore,...

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An analysis of the effects of the severance payment reform on credit to Italian SMEs

Calcagno, Riccardo; Kräussl, Roman; Monticone, Chiara - 2008

We study the effects of the reform of the system of severance payments (TFR) of Italian employees on the cost and the access to credit for small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs). The most direct consequence of the reform is to reduce in the long run the amount of liquid assets available to...

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Export growth and factor market competition : theory and some evidence

Namini, Julian Emami; Facchini, Giovanni; López, Ricardo A. - 2011

Empirical evidence suggests that sectoral export growth decreases exporters' survival probability, whereas this is not true for non-exporters. Models with firm heterogeneity in total factor productivity (TFP) predict the opposite. To solve this puzzle, we develop a two{factor framework where...

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Made and created in China : super processors and two-way heterogeneity

Chen, Zhiyuan; Erbahar, Aksel; Zi, Yuan - 2019

choose to become suppliers or final good producers, and those that excel in both manufacturing ability and blueprint quality …

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Market structure and the pricing of new products : a nested logit approach with asymmetric firms

Bleker, Sylvia; Behrens, Christiaan; Koster, Paul; … - 2014

This article investigates competition in a market with an emerging technology using a discrete choice model to analyze demand and welfare. We focus on industry structure and investigate the impact of different market structures on demand for the new technology and on welfare. The car market...

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The transaction costs perspective on standards as a source of trade and productivity growth

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Groot, Stefan P. T.; Lazrak, Faroek - 2007

This paper discusses the design, implementation and use of standards from the perspective of transaction costs economics. A proper design and implementation of standards may lead to a considerable reduction of transaction costs, which enhances trade and, consequently, economic welfare. A major...

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Cross-border mergers and acquisitions : on revealed comparative advantage and merger waves

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2008 - This version: January 2008

By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions - M&As), we test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2007) general oligopolistic equilibrium (GOLE) model (incorporating strategic interaction between firms in a general equilibrium...

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Pros and cons of "backing winners" in innovation policy

Butter, Frank A. G. den; Jo, Seung-gyu - 2009

In the economics profession there is a fierce debate whether industrial and innovation policy should be targeted to …

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Tainted food, low-quality products and trade

Viaene, Jean-Marie; Zhao, Laixun - 2010

This paper examines international trade in tainted food and other low-quality products. Wefirst find that for a large … class of environments, free trade is the trading system that conveysthe highest incentives to produce non-tainted high-quality … to arise becomes more easily satisfied, if the marginal cost of high-quality productionincreases or if errors of testing …

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Competition policy in an open economy

Francois, Joseph F.; Horn, Henrik - 1998 - Rev.

We examine the setting of national competition policy in a two-country setting,emphasizing the relationship of trade to the goals of competition policy (suchas the degree and nature of competition). The issues we address involve thegeneral equilibrium distributional effects of competition...

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