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We use the Longitudinal Business Database to examine the impact of state-level paid parental leave laws in California, New Jersey, and Rhode Island on firms. Our main estimation strategy uses multi-unit firms and compares within-firm changes in outcomes for establishments in treated and...
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This paper estimates a dynamic, structural model of entry and exit in an oligopolistic industry and uses it to quantify …. Entry costs faced by potential entrants, fixed costs faced by incumbent producers, and the toughness of short-run price … the dentist industry allow the entry cost to differ for geographic markets that were designated as Health Professional …
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We use survival analysis to analyse the impact of export credit guarantees on firms' export duration using granular Swedish panel data at the firm-country and firm-country-product levels. The estimation results show that firms' export survival substantially increases with guarantees, at both...
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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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, however, is relatively unexplored. Recognizing imports' role in bolstering exports can rejuvenate external demand and spur …
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competitiveness manufacturing industries was able to weather the storm during 2001 economic crisis and in the wake of Chinese entry to …
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market. Coupled with a constant profit share in domestic sectors this makes European exports vulnerable to vagaries of … past. In fact econometric evidence is not totally at odds with this view. However, neither exports in a large European … large extent can be passed on to prices. On the other hand exports seem to be heavily subject to the vicissitudes of …
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Exports serve as an engine of economic growth and can potentially help countries come out of poverty and unemployment …. However, as the production process is increasingly getting fragmented globally, greater exports no longer imply higher … domestic production, as imports of intermediate products used as inputs in exports also increase. Global Value Chains (GVCs …
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innovation collaboration as a marketing tool to let the incumbent's innovation activity glitter more. Therefore, we conclude that …
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The Africa Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have benefited from unilateral preferential access to EU markets under various trade agreements. However, since agricultural trade is increasingly determined by food safety and quality standards, one of the main concerns of ACP countries is their...
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