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Oil Prices, Geography and Endogenous Regionalism: Too Much Ado About (Almost) Nothing

Mirza, Daniel; Zitouna, Habib - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2009

This paper studies the effect of oil prices on the geography of international trade. We model transport costs as a … function of variable and fixed costs. By affecting the first cost component, oil prices can then modify the structure of … transportation costs across partners. This, we argue, acts as a factor of distortion in relative prices, thereby creating a …

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The Impact of Multilateral Liberalisation on European Regions: a CGE Assessment

Jean, Sébastien; Laborde, David - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2004

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Market Size, Competition, and the Product Mix of Exporters

Mayer, Thierry; Melitz, Marc; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

We build a theoretical model of multi-product firms that highlights how market size and geography (the market sizes of … export sales (after controlling for bilateral trade costs). Theoretically, this within firm change in product mix driven by …

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Does Importing more Inputs Raise Exports? Firm Level Evidence from France

Bas, Maria; Strauss-Kahn, Vanessa - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

increases firm’s productivity and thereby makes the firm able to overcome the export fixed costs. Whereas the literature …

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Unilateral trade reform, Market Access and Foreign Competition: the Patterns of Multi-Product Exporters

Bas, Maria; Bombarda, Pamela - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

Recent findings in international trade using detailed firm level surveys emphasize the microeconomic effects of trade liberalization episodes. A unilateral trade reform has two opposite effects on firms’ export patterns: (i) expansion of export opportunities for foreign firms exporting to that...

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European High-End Varieties in International Competition

Fontagné, Lionel; Hatte, Sophie - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014

We study international competition in high-end varieties for 416 detailed HS6 product categories marketed by the leading French luxury brands. We construct a world database of trade flows for these products, computing unit values of related bilateral trade flows and analyzing competition among...

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Low-Wage Countries’ Competition, Reallocation Across Firms and the Quality Content of Exports

Martin, Julien; Méjean, Isabelle - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012

We consider the impact of low-wage countries’ competition on the quality content of high-wage countries’ exports. We develop a new method that uses firm-level data to measure quality changes in sectoral exports. Over 1995-2005, we measure a 11% increase in the mean quality of France’s...

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Notes on CEPII’s distances measures: The GeoDist database

Mayer, Thierry; Zignago, Soledad - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2011

GeoDist makes available the exhaustive set of gravity variables used in Mayer and Zignago (2005). GeoDist provides several geographical variables, in particular bilateral distances measured using citylevel data to assess the geographic distribution of population inside each nation. We have...

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Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013

This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the...

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The Few Leading the Many: Foreign Affiliates and Business Cycle Comovement

Kleinert, Jörn; Martin, Julien; Toubal, Farid - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2012

This paper uses micro-data on balance sheets, trade, and the nationality of ownership of firms in France to investigate the effect of foreign multinationals on business cycle comovement. We first show that foreign affiliates, which represent a tiny fraction of all firms, are responsible for a...

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