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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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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...
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Heterogeneous Firms and International Trade: The role of productivity and financial fragility
Assenza, Tiziana; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grazzini, Jakob; … - 2016
In his seminal paper, starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) nicely … accounts for the stylized fact that the level of individual productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to … depends on both productivity and net worth, and both are heterogeneous across firms. We show that firms with low productivity …
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India in the Global and Regional Trade: Determinants of Aggregate and Bilateral Trade Flows and Firms' Decision to Export
Srinivasan, T. N.; Archana, Vani - 2009
size and productivity) are relevant besides country level barriers on trade matter for participation in world trade. This …
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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival
Gullstrand, Joakim; Persson, Maria - 2012
In endeavouring to explain the empirical puzzle that the sunk costs of exporting are important, but that, at the same time, trade flows do not, on average, survive for very long, this paper explores the concepts of core and peripheral markets. First, it illustrates that if the importance of sunk...
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Internationalization strategies of multi-product firms: The role of technology
Baumgarten, Daniel; Irlacher, Michael; Mayr, Karin - 2020
products with intermediate productivity. Shocks to trade costs and technology affect the endogenous decision to export or … produce abroad at the product-level and, in turn, the relative productivity between parents and affiliates. …
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The Role of Services for Manufacturing Firms' Exports
Lodefalk, Magnus - 2012
-house production and seemingly also in total sale. Firms' services intensity may affect their productivity, and thereby competitiveness …
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Mitigating Information Frictions in Trade: Evidence from Export Credit Guarantees
Agarwal, Natasha; Lodefalk, Magnus; Tang, Aili; Tano, Sofia - 2019
, guarantees do not generally impact jobs, value added or productivity. Third, guarantees affect firms heterogeneously. Exports …
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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...
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Low-Wage Import Competition, Inflationary Pressure, and Industry Dynamics in Europe
Auer, Raphael; Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - 2011
average productivity with only a muted effect on wages or margins. Owing to the exit of firms and the increase in productivity …
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