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We argue that the procompetitive effect of international trade may bring about significant welfare costs that have not been recognized. We formulate a stylized general equilibrium model with a continuum of imperfectly competitive industries to show that, under plausible conditions, a...
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This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...
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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …
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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …
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prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …
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sellers charge markups over production costs and financial intermediation is costly, then buyer-seller pairs can save on their … overall financing costs by utilizing trade credit. We derive a model of trade credit and markups that captures this mechanism … this effect is stronger for complex products. Using Chilean data at the firm-level to estimate markups and at the trade …
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We investigate theoretically and empirically how exporters adjust their markups across destinations depending on … unit, our model predicts that markups rise with distance and fall with tariffs, but these effects are heterogeneous and are …
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also reveal that markups are a complex function of firm characteristics and that the price-setting behavior of firms in the …
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new effects regarding markups response to consumer heterogeneity and trade liberalization. Specifically, the model … of markups, charged by monopolistically competitive firms across destination countries. …
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