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Scale, Scope, and the International Expansion Strategies of Multiproduct Firms

Yeaple, Stephen R. - 2013

A growing literature seeks to understand how the characteristics of firms shape the manner in which they serve foreign markets. We consider an environment in which multiproduct firms can sell their products in multiple countries from multiple locations. We show that there are strong empirical...

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Retail Globalization and Household Welfare : Evidence from Mexico

Atkin, David - 2015

The arrival of global retail chains in developing countries is causing a radical transformation in the way that households source their consumption. This paper draws on a new collection of Mexican microdata to estimate the effect of foreign supermarket entry on household welfare. The richness of...

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Innovation and Productivity in Smes : Empirical Evidence for Italy

Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2010

Innovation in SMEs exhibits some peculiar features that most traditional indicators of innovation activity do not … on Italian SMEs from the quot;Survey on Manufacturing Firmsquot; conducted by Mediocredito-Capitalia covering the period …, especially process innovation. Among SMEs, larger and older firms seem to be less productive …

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The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Owners : Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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Entrepreneurship and the City

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014

Why do levels of entrepreneurship differ across America's cities? This paper presents basic facts on two measures of … entrepreneurship: the self-employment rate and the number of small firms. Both of these measures are correlated with urban success … entrepreneurship is linked to a large number of small firms in supplying industries. Finally, there is a strong connection between area …

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Technology and Production Fragmentation : Domestic Versus Foreign Sourcing

Fort, Teresa - 2016

This paper provides direct empirical evidence on the relationship between technology and firms' global sourcing strategies. Using new data on U.S. firms' decisions to contract for manufacturing services from domestic or foreign suppliers, I show that a firm's adoption of communication technology...

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Internationalized Production in Developed and Developing Countries and in Industry Sectors

Lipsey, Robert E. - 2021

Internationalized production, that is, production in a country controlled by firms based in another country, grew from about 4.5% of world output in 1970 to over 7% in 1995. The importance of internationalized output fell substantially in developing countries until around 1990 but has been been...

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Specialization : Pro- and Anti-Globalizing, 1990-2002

Anderson, James E. - 2014

Specialization alters the incidence of manufacturing trade costs to buyers and sellers, with pro-and anti-globalizing effects on 76 countries from 1990-2002. The structural gravity model yields measures of Constructed Home Bias (the ratio of predicted local trade to predicted frictionless local...

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Gvcs and Trade Elasticities with Multistage Production

Johnson, Robert C. - 2019

We build a quantitative model of trade with multistage manufacturing value chains, which features iceberg trade costs and technology differences across both goods and production stages. We estimate technology and trade costs via the simulated method of moments, matching bilateral shipments of...

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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope

Nocke, Volker - 2010

We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size … have lower values of Tobin%u2019s Q than small firms. Second, it explains the globalization-skewness puzzle documented in … firms. In our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the …

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