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Multinationals, Technology, and the Introduction of Varieties of Goods

Brambilla, Irene - 2010

Multiproduct firms and product turnover are widespread phenomena. This paper develops a theoretical framework that links advantages in Ramp;D and variable costs with firm's ability to expand its portfolio of products. The framework is then applied to explain systematic differences in product...

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Quid Pro Quo : Technology Capital Transfers for Market Access in China

Holmes, Thomas - 2014

Despite the recent rapid development and greater openness of China's economy, FDI flows between China and … technologically advanced countries are relatively small in both directions. We assess global capital flows in light of China's quid … model to data. We also find large welfare gains for China--and welfare losses for its FDI partners--from quid pro quo …

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Overcoming Informational Barriers to International Resource Allocation : Prices and Group Ties

Rauch, James E. - 2012

Incomplete information in the international market creates difficulty in matching agents with productive opportunities and interferes with the ability of prices to allocate scarce resources across countries. Resource-price differentials may not be eliminated and domestic resource supplies may...

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Time to Ship During Financial Crises

Berman, Nicolas - 2012

We show that the negative impact of financial crises on trade is magnified for destinations with longer time-to-ship. A simple model where exporters react to an increase in the probability of default of importers by increasing their export price and decreasing their export volumes to...

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What Drives Home Market Advantage?

Cosar, Kerem - 2015

In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...

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Exports, Export Destinations, and Skills

Brambilla, Irene - 2015

This paper explores the links between exports, export destinations and skill utilization by firms. We identify two mechanisms behind these links, which we integrate into a unified theory of export destinations and skills. First, exporting to high-income countries with higher valuation for...

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Firm R&D Investment and Export Market Exposure

Peters, Bettina - 2018

In this article we study differences in the returns to R&D investment between firms that sell in international markets and firms that only sell in the domestic market. We use German firm-level data from the high-tech manufacturing sector to estimate a dynamic structural model of a firm's...

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Export Destinations and Input Prices

Bastos, Paulo - 2014

This paper examines the extent to which the destination of exports matters for the input prices paid by firms, using detailed customs and firm-product-level data from Portugal. We use exchange-rate movements as a source of variation in export destinations and find that exporting to richer...

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Host-Country Financial Development and Multinational Activity

Bilir, Kamran - 2014

This paper evaluates the influence of host-country financial conditions on the global operations of multinational firms. Using detailed U.S. data, we establish that financial development in a country is associated with relatively more entry by multinational affiliates, as well as with higher...

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Gravity and Extended Gravity : Using Moment Inequalities to Estimate a Model of Export Entry

Morales, Eduardo - 2014

Exporting firms often enter foreign markets that are similar to previous export destinations. We develop a dynamic model in which a firm's exports in a market may depend on how similar the market is to the firm's home country (gravity) and to its previous export destinations (extended gravity)....

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