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Fixed Export Cost heterogeneity, Trade and Welfare
Schröder, Philipp J.H.; Jørgensen, Jan G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Recent literature on the workhorse model of intra-industry trade has explored heterogeneous cost structures at the firm level. These approaches have proven to add realism and predictive power. This paper presents a new and simple heterogeneous-firms specification. We develop a symmetric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260181
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India-Pakistan Trade Liberalization: A CGE Modelling Apporach
Pohit, Sanjib - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
trade liberalization. However, these gains are realized only when productivity gain occur in the modes of transport service …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109495
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Productivity, quality and exporting behavior under minimum quality constraints
Hallak, Juan Carlos; Sivadasan, Jagadeesh - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
We develop a model of international trade with two sources of firm heterogeneity: "productivity" and "caliber …". Productivity is modeled as is standard in the literature. Caliber is the ability to produce quality using few fixed inputs. While … to single-attribute models of firm heterogeneity emphasizing either productivity or the ability to produce quality, our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548818
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Globalization and wage premia: reconciling facts and theory
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper analyzes the e¤ect of globalization on wage premia by studying the interaction between trade costs, firms’ location decision, and relative demand for labor. It suggests that globalization, through vertical specialization and/or agglomeration, increases inequality in countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259510
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Exports Margins in Austria’s Export Growth
Türkcan, Kemal - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Recent empirical research in international trade emphasizes the role of the extensive and intensive margin as determinants of countries’ trade patterns. Considering the case of Austria, the present paper uses detailed bilateral export data with 215 partner countries over the period 1998-2011,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260823
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A fast, easy, and efficient estimator for the trade flux between heterogeneous economies
Sova, Robert; Sova, Anamaria - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Compared to time-series or cross-section analyses, panel data allow us to control for individual specific characteristics - possibly unobservable - which may be correlated with certain explanatory variables in the specification of an economic relationship. Not controlling for unobservables leads...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260053
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Market access in global and regional trade
De Sousa, Jose; Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of countries (both developing and developed) and industries, during the period 1980-2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009404630
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Globalization and wage premia: reconciling facts and theory
Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper analyzes the e¤ect of globalization on wage premia by studying the interaction between trade costs, firms’ location decision, and relative demand for labor. It suggests that globalization, through vertical specialization and/or agglomeration, increases inequality in countries with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008596367
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The Possible Trade Effects of the Third Enlargement: The Case of Turkish Exports to EU
Deger, Cagacan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
This paper aims to comment on the trade impact of the new wave of European enlargement with the membership of Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) by focusing on the case of Turkish exports to EU members, new member countries and candidate countries. It is calculated that once the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541499
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Spatial Discounting, Fourier, and Racetrack Economy: A Recipe for the Analysis of Spatial Agglomeration Models
Akamatsu, Takashi; Takayama, Yuki; Ikeda, Kiyohiro - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We provide an analytical approach that facilitates understanding the bifurcation mechanism of a wide class of economic models involving spatial agglomeration of economic activities. The proposed method overcomes the limitations of the Turing (1952) approach that has been used to analyze the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541511