Showing 1 - 10 of 22
We introduce quality differentiation and an extensive margin of products into a standard quantitative, general equilibrium model of international trade. Both the quality and the quantity of a product play a role in its contribution both to consumption and to production. The framework allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480070
adopt a model of firm heterogeneity and export participation which we estimate to match moments of the French data using the … attributed to a single dimension of underlying firm heterogeneity, efficiency. Conditional on entry, underlying efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464037
Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814460
data on bilateral trade in manufactures among 92 countries and to firm-level export data for a much narrower sample shows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460795
Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific export patterns over the period 1996 … previous year. These new exporters tend to be extremely small in terms of their overall contribution to export revenues, and … most do not continue exporting in the following year. Hence export sales are dominated by a small number of very large and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465115
We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473405
Recent supply disruptions catapulted the issue of risk in global supply chains (GSCs) to the top of policy agendas and created the impression that shortages would have been less severe if GSCs were either shorter and more domestic, or more diversified. But is this right? We start our answer by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660121
We use a forty-two country model of production and trade to assess the implications of eliminating current account imbalances for relative wages, relative GDP's, real wages, and real absorption. How much relative GDP's need to change depends on flexibility of two forms: factor mobility and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464800
This paper takes a step towards formalizing the theoretical interconnections among four post-Industrial Revolution phenomena - the industrialization and growth take-off of rich northern' nations, massive global income divergence, and rapid trade expansion. Specifically, we present a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472347
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003209179