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Multi-Product Firms and Product Turnover in the Developing World : Evidence from India
Goldberg, Pinelopi - 2015
Recent theoretical work predicts that an important margin of adjustment to deregulation or trade reforms is the … detailed firm-level data from India, we provide the first evidence on the patterns of multi-product firm production in a large …-section, multi-product firms in India look remarkably similar to their U.S. counterparts, confirming the predictions of recent …
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Globalization and Multiproduct Firms
Nocke, Volker - 2013
. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076573
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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Unilateral Tariff Liberalisation
Baldwin, Richard - 2010
Unilateral tariff liberalisation by developing nations is pervasive but our understanding of it is shallow. This paper strives to partly redress this lacuna on the theory side by introducing three novel political economy mechanisms with particular emphasis is on the role of production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135235
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Open Borders
Kennan, John - 2012
There is a large body of evidence indicating that cross-country differences in income levels are associated with differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead to large efficiency losses. The paper quantifies...
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Trade Versus Investment Liberalization
Markusen, James R. - 2021
Despite several theoretical contributions and considerable informal empirical evidence" to the contrary, a notion that trade and investment are substitutes persists in trade policy" analysis. This paper considers the liberalization of commodity trade versus liberalization" allowing direct...
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Competitive Liberalization and a Us-Sacu FTA
Whalley, John; Leith, J. Clark - 2022
This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...
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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? the Case of Mexico in the 1990s
Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto - 2010
With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...
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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and India. In contrast, the central European transition countries such as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067648
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Trade Reforms and Market Selection : Evidence from Manufacturing Plants in Colombia
Eslava, Marcela - 2009
We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...
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