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India has a large positive trade balance in the apparel sector and is ranked among the top 10 apparel exporting countries. However, of late, its export growth has stagnated and the country is facing competition in key export markets such as the United States and the European Union from other...
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compete in a differentiated product market characterized by network externalities. The latter are shown to crucially affect … yields higher profits than Bertrand under ad valorem royalties, regardless of the strength of network effects. …
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Using a general two-stage framework, this paper gives sufficient conditions for increasing competition to have negative or positive effects on R&D-investment, respectively. Both possibilities arise in plausible situations, even if one uses relatively narrow definitions of increasing competition....
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We examine the interplay of endogenous vertical integration and costreducing downstream investment in successive oligopoly. We start from a linear Cournot model to motivate our more general reducedform framework. For this general framework, we establish the following main results: First,...
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This paper investigates whether firms' exports of different products within a market are systematically interconnected. Using high-quality Swedish firm-registry data from 1997-2011, I first document that the distribution of firm export sales is skewed towards their best performing products...
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We argue that the rise of antidumping protection and the proliferation of voluntary export restraints are fundamentally inter-related. We show that both can be explained by a cost-based definition of dumping when the domestic government has incomplete information about the foreign firm's costs....
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dynamic bank volatility network. The volatility connectedness increased substantially during the US financial crisis (from … country clusters in the banking volatility network. Major Indian, Taiwanese and Chinese banks generate volatility … connectedness to their counterparts in other countries of the region. Finally, we show that the region's bank volatility network …
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statics analysis shows the effects of change in individual heterogeneous parameters, conformism, and density of the network on …
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We use cooperative game theory to analyze the impact of three controversial pipeline projects on the power structure in the Eurasian trade of natural gas. Two of them, Nord Stream and South Stream, allow Russian gas to bypass transit countries, Ukraine and Belarus. Nord Stream's strategic value...
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agents react to exogenous shocks. In order to determine the centrality of a node in the global input-output network, we … analyze the network through the lenses of an economic model calibrated on empirical data. We show that formalizing the nodes … of the network topology. Moreover, using the calibrated model, we define a fragility index that measures the ability of …
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