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Chen, Natalie; Imbs, Jean; Scott, Andrew - 2006

We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003) and Melitz and Ottaviano (2005). The model is constructed to yield testable implications for the dynamics of international prices, productivity levels and markups as functions...

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International shocks and domestic prices : how large are strategic complementarities?

Amiti, Mari; Itskhoki, Oleg; Konings, Jozef - 2016

How strong are strategic complementarities in price setting across firms? In this paper, we provide a direct empirical estimate of firm price responses to changes in prices of their competitors. We develop a general framework and an empirical identification strategy to estimate the elasticities...

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Assessing European firms' exports and productivity distributions : the CompNet trade module

Berthou, Antoine; Dhyne, Emmanuel; Bugamelli, Matteo; … - 2015

This paper provides a new cross-country evaluation of competitiveness, focusing on the linkages between productivity and export performance among European economies. We use the information compiled in the Trade module of CompNet to establish new stylized facts regarding the joint distributions...

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Assessing European competitiveness : the new CompNet micro-based database

López-García, Paloma; Di Mauro, Filippo - CompNet Task Force - 2015

Drawing from confidential firm-level balance sheets for 17 European countries (13 Euro-Area), the paper documents the newly expanded database of cross-country comparable competitivenessrelated indicators built by the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet). The new database provides...

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International competition and firm performance : evidence from Belgium

De Loecker, Jan; Fuss, Catherine; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2014

We evaluate the impact of international competition on firm-level perfor- mance in Belgium. In the manufacturing sector we consider both the impact of global competition through measures of import penetration and the impact of within-EU competitiveness using measures of relative labor cost. In...

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Import competition, productivity and multi-product firms

Dhyne, Emmanuel; Petrin, Amil; Smeets, Valerie; … - 2014

Using detailed firm-product level quarterly data, we develop an estimation framework of a Multi-Product Production Function (MPPF) and analyse firm-product level TFP estimations at various levels (industries, products). After documenting our estimation results, we relate productivity estimates...

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European competitiveness : a semi-parametric stochastic metafrontier analysis at the firm level

Dumont, Michel; Merlevede, Bruno; Rayp, Glenn; … - 2014

In this paper a semiparametric stochastic metafrontier approach is used to obtain insight into firmlevel competitiveness in Europe. We differ from standard TFP studies at the firm level as we simultaneously allow for inefficiency, noise and do not impose a functional form on the input-output...

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Trade with China and skill upgrading : evidence from Belgian firm level data

Mion, Giordano; Vandenbussche, Hylke; Zhu, Linke - 2010

We use Belgian firm-level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of imports from China and other low-wage countries on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading in manufacturing. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish...

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Firms' investment decisions in response to demand and price uncertainty

Fuss, Catherine; Vermeulen, Philip - 2004

We estimate the effect of demand and price uncertainty on firms' investment decisions from a panel of manufacturing … investment, while price uncertainty is insignificant. This is consistent with the behavior of monopolistic firms with … irreversible capital (Caballero, 1991). Further, firms revise their investment plans very little. They may do so in response to new …

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The interplay between green policy, electricity prices, financial constraints and jobs : firm-level evidence

Bijnens, Gert; Hutchinson, John; Konings, Jozef; … - 2021

Increased investment in clean electricity generation or the introduction of a carbon tax will most likely lead to …-level data, we find that rising electricity prices lead to a negative impact on labor demand and investment in sectors most …

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