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We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution. To account for endogeneity, we construct a leave-out measure for international trade integration for country-industry pairs using international input-output tables. First, we...
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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competition are more likely to migrate to other municipalities within Mexico, while a negative effect is found on the decision to …
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important as lack of funding for new investment in capital for rural producers in Mexico. Producers benefit from easing their …This paper evaluates the effectiveness of easing credit constraints for rural producers in Mexico through loans … loans on production and investment decisions, input use, and yields. Using a multiple treatment methodology, it explores the …
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Competitiveness differentials are blamed for the instability of the Eurozone. Most of the analyses focus on labour costs or labour-market institutions. This paper explores an additional source of differentials in competitiveness: land and building prices. European countries, especially France,...
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We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the connection between plants’ responses to changes in the economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all...
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-level data and compare the behavior of employment, production and investment after two big real exchange rate shocks: the first … exporting firms exhibited higher growth rates of employment, sales, and investment vis-á-vis non-exporters. We confirm our …
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heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export …
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longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits … plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in the homicide rate during the outbreak of drug-trade related violence in Mexico … violence has significant distortive effects on domestic industrial development in Mexico and shed light on the characteristics …
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This paper tests the pro-competitive effect of trade in the product and labor markets of UK manufacturing sectors between 1988 and 2003 using a two-stage estimation procedure. In the first stage, we use data on 9820 firms from twenty manufacturing sectors to simultaneously estimate mark-up and...
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