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The Impact of Emerging Market Competition on Innovation and Business Strategy

Kueng, Lorenz - 2016

How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports between 1999 and 2005. On average, process...

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Market Penetration Costs and the New Consumers Margin in International Trade

Arkolakis, Costas - 2008

, Kortum and Kramarz, in particular the higher sales in France of firms that choose to export to more destinations. The model … predicts that most firms do not export, and that a large proportion of firms that export in particular markets do so in small …

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Product Mix and Firm Productivity Responses to Trade Competition

Mayer, Thierry - 2016

We document how demand shocks in export markets lead French multi-product exporters to re-allocate the mix of products … sold in those destinations. In response to positive demand shocks, those French firms skew their export sales towards their … increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …

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The Competitive Position of U.S. Manufacturing Firms

Lipsey, Robert E. - 1985

.S. parents and their affiliates reflected differences among industries in the extent to which export production shares moved from …

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Business Strategy and the Management of Firms

Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2015

Business strategy can be defined as a firm's plan to generate economic profits based on lower cost, better quality, or new products. The analysis of business strategy is thus at the intersection of market competition and a firm's efforts to secure persistently superior performance via...

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Opposing firm-level Responses to the China Shock : Horizontal Competition Versus Vertical Relationships?

Aghion, Philippe; Bergeaud, Antonin; Lequien, Matthieu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We decompose the "China shock" into two components that induce different adjustments for firms exposed to Chinese exports: a horizontal shock affecting firms selling goods that compete with similar imported Chinese goods, and a vertical shock affecting firms using inputs similar to the imported...

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Distinguishing Constraints on Financial Inclusion and Their Impact on GDP, TFP, and Inequality

Dabla-Norris, Era - 2015

We develop a micro-founded general equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents and three dimensions of financial inclusion: access (determined by a participation cost), depth (determined by a borrowing constraint), and intermediation efficiency (determined by a monitoring cost). We find that the...

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Beyond Competitive Devaluations : The Monetary Dimensions of Comparative Advantage

Bergin, Paul R. - 2019

Motivated by the long-standing debate on the pros and cons of competitive devaluation, we propose a new perspective on how monetary and exchange rate policies can contribute to a country's international competitiveness. We refocus the analysis on the implications of monetary stabilization for a...

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Restoring the Product Variety and Pro-competitive Gains from Trade with Heterogeneous Firms and Bounded Productivity

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2014

The monopolistic competition model in international trade offers three sources of gains from trade that do not arise in competitive models: expansion in product variety; a pro-competitive reduction in the markups charged by firms; and the self-selection of more efficient firms into exporting....

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The Strategic Use of Tying to Preserve and Create Market Power in Evolving Industries

Carlton, Dennis W. - 1998

This paper investigates how the tying of complementary products can be used to preserve and extend monopoly positions. We first show how a firm that is a monopolist of a product in the current period can use tying to preserve its monopoly position in future periods. We then show using related...

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