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Market Entry Costs, Producer Heterogeneity, and Export Dynamics
Das, Sanghamitra; Roberts, Mark J.; Tybout, James - 2021
As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model of export supply that characterizes these two...
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Entry, Trade, and Exporting Over the Cycle
Alessandria, George A. - 2019
We study how international trade and the exporting decisions of establishments affect establishment creation over the business cycle in a general equilibrium model. The model captures two key features of establishment and exporter dynamics: i) new establishments start small and grow over time...
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Export Entry and Exit by German Firms
Bernard, Andrew B.; Wagner, Joachim - 2021
This paper examines the decision to enter the export market by German firms. While exports have played an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013228015
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Dissecting Trade : Firms, Industries, and Export Destinations
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S.; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
manufacturing firms. The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination. Looking across all … exports to each destination into the size of the market and French share, variation in market share translates nearly …
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Clusters of Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
. A second class of theories hypothesizes that some places are endowed with a greater supply of entrepreneurship. Evidence … on sales per worker does not support the higher returns for entrepreneurship rationale. Our evidence suggests that … entrepreneurship is higher when fixed costs are lower and when there are more entrepreneurial people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070743
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Entry Regulation as a Barrier to Entrepreneurship
Klapper, Leora F. - 2004
Using a comprehensive database of European firms, we study the effect of market entry regulations on the creation of new limited-liability firms, the average size of entrants, and the growth of incumbent firms. We find that costly regulations hamper the creation of new firms, especially in...
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Entrepreneurial Taxation with Endogenous Entry
Scheuer, Florian - 2014
This paper analyzes Pareto optimal non-linear taxation of profits and labor income in a private information economy with endogenous firm formation. Individuals differ in both their skill and their cost of setting up a firm, and choose between becoming workers and entrepreneurs. I show that a tax...
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"Success Taxes," Entrepreneurial Entry, and Innovation
Gentry, William M.; Hubbard, R. Glenn - 2021
entry, the progressivity of the tax also discourages entrepreneurship, and significantly so for some groups of households …
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The Effects of Entry on Incumbent Innovation and Productivity
Aghion, Philippe; Blundell, Richard W.; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021
How does firm entry affect innovation incentives and productivity growth in incumbent firms? Micro-data suggests that there is heterogeneity across industries--incumbents in technologically advanced industries react positively to foreign firm entry, but not in laggard industries. To explain this...
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International Trade : Linking Micro and Macro
Eaton, Jonathan - 2014
A recent literature has introduced heterogeneous firms into models of international trade. This literature has adopted the convention of treating individual firms as points on a continuum. While the continuum offers many advantages this convenience comes at some cost: (1) Shocks to individual...
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