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Multi-Product Firms and Product Quality
Manova, Kalina; Zhang, Zhiwei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper proposes that quality differentiation is an important feature of the operations of multi-product firms. We … develop a model in which manufacturers vary product quality across their product range by using inputs of different quality … levels. Firms' core competency is in varieties of superior quality that bring higher sales despite being more expensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951043
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A Unified Theory of Firm Selection and Growth
Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper studies the effects of marketing choice to firm growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements with continuous arrival of new potential producers. A firm enters a market if it is profitable to incur the marginal cost to reach the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353476
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Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade
Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
I develop a new theory of marketing costs and introduce it into a model of trade with product differentiation and firm productivity heterogeneity. In this model, a firm enters a market if it makes profits by reaching a single consumer there and pays an increasing marginal cost to access...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828418
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Globalization and Endogenous Firm Scope
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms have lower values of Tobin%u2019s Q than small firms....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828874
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An Anatomy of International Trade: Evidence from French Firms
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
We examine the sales of French manufacturing firms in 113 destinations, including France itself. Several regularities stand out: (1) the number of French firms selling to a market, relative to French market share, increases systematically with market size; (2) sales distributions are very similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005830348
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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia
Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis …, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this … positive in industries with more scope for quality differentiation, as measured by the advertising and R&D intensity of U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005774818
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Income Differences and Prices of Tradables: Insights from an Online Retailer
Simonovska, Ina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
I study the positive relationship between prices of tradable goods and per-capita income. I develop a highly tractable general equilibrium model of international trade with heterogeneous firms and non-homothetic consumer preferences that positively links prices of tradables to consumer income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548812
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An Assignment Theory of Foreign Direct Investment
Nocke, Volker; Yeaple, Stephen Ross - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2004
We develop an assignment theory to analyze the volume and composition of foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms conduct FDI by either engaging in greenfield investment or in cross-border acquisitions. Cross-border acquisitions involve firms trading heterogeneous corporate assets to exploit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005088966
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Export Prices Across Firms and Destinations
Manova, Kalina; Zhang, Zhiwei - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
data: more successful exporters use higher-quality inputs to produce higher-quality goods (stylized facts 1 and 2), and … firms vary the quality of their products across destinations by using inputs of different quality levels (stylized facts 3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005027084
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The Extensive Margin of Exporting Products: A Firm-level Analysis
Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776832