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Subsidies and exports in Germany : first evidence from enterprise panel data

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies

Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009

Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different …

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock : evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by … the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data … industries and occupations. -- Import shock ; adjustment ; clothing industry ; Germany …

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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010

This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...

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Globalization and strategic research investments

Bohnstedt, Anna; Schwarz, Christian; Südekum, Jens - 2010

We develop a general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms, where countries can invest into basic research to improve their technological potential. These research investments tighten firm selection and raise the average productivity of firms in the market, thereby...

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Preferential market access into the Chinese market : how good is it for Africa?

Co, Catherine Yap; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...

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An empirical analysis of trade-related redistribution and the political viability of free trade

Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2014

Even if free trade creates net welfare gains for a country as a whole, the associated distributional implications can undermine the political viability of free trade. We show that trade-related redistribution increases the political viability of free trade in the US. We do so by assessing the...

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Tariffs, social status, and gender in India

Anukriti, S.; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014

This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...

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Good jobs, bad jobs : what's trade got to do with it?

Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...

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Service sector development and its determinants in Rwanda

Uwitonze, Eric; Heshmati, Almas - 2016

The service sector is an avenue for economic transformation as not all countries have a competitive edge in manufacturing. The growing literature on service sector primarily focuses on its development in the US and Europe and on Asian emerging service economies like India. Not as much attention...

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