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Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the … fluctuation of the growth rate of trade balance is derived. These are the novel features of our model. The export price equation … and export volume equation are estimated for several Asian countries for the sample period of 1981 to 1996. Results are …
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export their highest-sales products across multiple destinations. To account for these regularities, we develop a model of …
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It has been a well-known puzzle why the yen has not been used more in trade invoicing among Japanese exporters. Despite the yen's status as an only fully convertible currency in Asia, two patterns stand out as puzzling features of an excessively small share of yen invoicing: First, a strong...
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economies that export goods to the U.S., Japan, and neighboring countries. The optimality of the exchange rate regime is defined …
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This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …
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This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...
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Exporters differ considerably in terms of export-market participation over time and employment size. But this marked … experience at other exporters. We show that expected export status, predicted with current destination-country trade instruments … reduced market penetration at the firm losing the worker. This evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that expected export …
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