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This paper analyzes the reaction of exporters to exchange rate changes.We present a model where, in the presence of distribution costs in the export market, high and low productivity firms react differently to a depreciation. Whereas high productivity firms optimally raise their markup rather...
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We study the impact of transnational terrorism diffusion on security and trade. We set a simple theoretical model … predicting that the closer a country to a source of terrorism, the higher the negative spillovers on its trade. The idea is that … security measures, which impede trade, are directed both against the source country of terror and its neighbor countries where …
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Recent trade models with heterogenous firms have considerable consequences on the interpretation of gravity equations …. Chaney (2008) shows that the effect of distance on trade margins incorporates three parameters: the elasticity of … substitution between goods, the elasticity of trade costs with respect to distance, and the degree of firm heterogeneity. We …
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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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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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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 … market. The main contribution of this paper is to investigate this trade-off between market access growth and tougher …
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This paper uses micro-data on balance sheets, trade, and the nationality of ownership of firms in France to investigate … a tiny fraction of all firms, are responsible for a high share of employment, value added, and trade both at the … location and their country of ownership. We find that intra-firm trade in intermediate inputs is a significant channel of …
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based on an econometric shift-share decomposition and we regard the EU-27 as an integrated economy, excluding intra-EU trade …
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