Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 464
Cover Image
Bridging Trade Barriers: Evaluating Models of Multi-Product Exporters
Arnarson, Björn Thor - 2016
In this paper I investigate the impact of a decrease in trade costs on firms' decisions to export. The main contribution of this paper is to evaluate empirically the theoretical predictions of several models of multi-product exporters. The focus is on the firm export entry decision and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208715
Cover Image
Similarity of income distributions and the extensive and intensive margin of bilateral trade flows
Bernasconi, Claudia - 2013
This paper investigates empirically how similarity of demand structures - approximated by similarity of income distributions - affects trade patterns along both the extensive and intensive margin. The idea that similarity of demand structures intensifies trade goes back to the well-known Linder...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316890
Cover Image
Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure … the institutions and infrastructure literature in this respect, using selection-based gravity modeling of trade flows. We … also depart from this literature by mixing principal components (to condense our institutional and infrastructure measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294570
Cover Image
Cross-Border Trade and FDI in Services
Fillat-Castejon, Carmen; Francois, Joseph Francis; … - 2008
Working with a panel dataset of of OECD countries over the decade 1994-2004, we examine linkages between cross-border trade and FDI in the service sectors. We first develop a consistent analytical framework for the application of the gravity model jointly to services trade and commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294854
Cover Image
Modes of Delivery in Services
Christen, Elisabeth; Francois, Joseph - 2010
We develop a new analytical framework for both cross-border services trade and services trade through foreign affiliates, based on heterogeneous firms operating under oligopoly. This leads to direct predictions about choice of services delivery (mode of delivery) at the firm level, and about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294882
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663205
Cover Image
Climbing up India's manufacturing export ladder: How competitive are intermediate goods?
Das, Deb Kusum; Gupta, Neha - 2019
The rising trade in intermediate goods accounts for almost two-thirds of world's trade (MGI, 2019). India's export …'s overall share in world merchandise exports has itself increased from 0.6% in 1993 to 0.8% in 2003 to 1.7% in 2016 (WTO, 2017 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012099542
Cover Image
Collateral damage: trade disruption and the economic impact of war
Taylor, Alan M.; Glick, Reuven - 2005
costs of war, such as lost human capital, as illustrated by case studies of World War I and World War II. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266399
Cover Image
Exploring the Evolution of Trade Survival Since 1962
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - 2011
Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports to individual EU15 countries from 140 non-EU exporters, covering the period 1962-2006. We find that short duration is a persistent characteristic of trade throughout the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208574