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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
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 … Herfindahl-Hirschman index (on a 0-100 scale), a measure of market concentration, explains an increase by 1 percent in the total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy
Cosar, Kerem - 2014
labor market outcomes, as well changes in these features during the past 25 years. Counterfactual experiments imply that … experiments find little role for this country's labor market reforms in driving these variables. The results speak more generally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013061953
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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011
This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125476
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765295
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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries' business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128748
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Occupational Choice, Aggregate Productivity, and Trade
Meckl, Jürgen - 2011
market integration. Our approach paves the way for detailed analysis of institutions in a heterogeneous firm model to better …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129918
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Globalization and Strategic Research Investments
Bohnstedt, Anna - 2011
average productivity of firms in the market, thereby implying lower consumer prices and higher welfare. In an open economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131927
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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms : The Role of Country Asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134819
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2010
We develop a theory of a firm in an environment with incomplete contracts. The firm's headquarter decides on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136032
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Heterogeneous Firms, Trade, and Economic Policy : Insights from a Simple Two-Sector Model
Pflüger, Michael - 2011
consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The … technology potentials, market sizes, trade openness and various business conditions as well as the international repercussions … reinvestigate the process of market exit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118266