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Export costs and geographic diversification: Does experience matter?
Castagnino, Tomás - 2010
What drives firms' geographic diversification in international markets? I build a model to show that if some export costs are sunk and shared between alike destinations, the decision of a firm to enter a market is a function of its experience in a similar one. Using a rich firm-level dataset for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325082
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Accounting for the new gains from trade liberalization
Hsieh, Chang-tai; Li, Nicholas; Ossa, Ralph; Yang, Mu-jeung - 2017
We measure the "new" gains from trade reaped by Canada as a result of the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA). We … think of the "new" gains from trade of a country as all welfare effects pertaining to changes in the set of firms serving … that country as emphasized in the so-called "new" trade literature. To this end, we first develop an exact decomposition of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663205
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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
What is the impact of import competition from low-wage countries (LWCs) on inflationary pressure in Europe? This paper examines whether labor-intensive exports from emerging Europe, Asia, and other global regions have a uniform impact on producer prices in Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430088
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael A. - 2014
0.7, while import price changes that can be traced back to exchange rate movements of other trade partners only have … mild effects on US prices. Further analysis points to the importance of trade integration, variable markups, and demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430113
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Exporters and global value chain participation: Firm-level evidence from South Africa
Mazzi, Caio Torres; Ndubuisi, Gideon; Avenyo, Elvis Korku - 2020
investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In … results confirm that global value chain-related trade is associated with a higher productivity premium compared with … traditional trade. However, within the categories of exporters, only the firms that trade in global value chain-related products …
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Markups and export pricing
Gullstrand, Joakim; Olofsdotter, Karin; Thede, Susanna - 2011
We analyze empirically product-price variation across export destinations using detailed firm-product data. Most recent studies using highly disaggregated data emphasize variations in product quality as an explanation as to why firms charge different prices for the same product on different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208597
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Distance Sensitivity of Export: A Firm-Product Level Approach
Jienwatcharamongkhol, Viroj - 2012
Recent literature suggests that product characteristics assert different distance sensitivity on trade flows. But the …
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How Does Quality Impact on Import Prices?
Benkovskis, Konstantins; Wörz, Julia - 2011
Understanding the dynamics of import price developments is an important but challenging issue which affects the way we look on consumers' welfare, real exchange rates and exchange rate pass-through. In this paper we propose an exact import price index which extends the approach by Broda and...
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Multi-product firms in international economics
Irlacher, Michael - 2022
theoretical and empirical papers studies the role of multi-product firms (MPFs) in international trade. This survey reviews the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014278242
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Multiproduct mergers and the product mix in domestic and foreign markets
Chan, Jackie M. L.; Irlacher, Michael; Koch, Michael - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of mergers on the product mix of multiproduct firms. Thus, we open the black box of post-merger efficiency improvements to reveal a new margin of adjustment along the product dimension. We analyze horizontal mergers in a theoretical model where oligopolistic...
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