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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Bradford Jensen, J.; Schott, Peter K. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746589
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - School of Management, Yale University - 2003
This paper examines the response of industries and firms to changes in trade costs. Several new firm-level models of international trade with heterogeneous firms predict that industry productivity will rise as trade costs fall due to the reallocation of activity across plants within an industry....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587009
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Financial health, exports, and firm survival: A comparison of British and French firms
Görg, Holger; Spaliara, Marina-Eliza - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
We examine the differential effects of financial status and exporting activity on the likelihood of survival for firms … direct impact of financial characteristics and different facets of exporting activity on the likelihood of survival? Do the … sensitivities of survival incidence to financial variables vary with the exporting status of firms? We find strong evidence that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010982708
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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival
Persson, Maria; Gullstrand, Joakim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
the trade survival literature also includes data on decisions to stay in or exit peripheral markets. … will tend to stay on the core market for a long time, they will enter and exit the peripheral market much more frequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019051
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Exploring the Long-Term Evolution of Trade Survival
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2011
Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283229
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How to Combine High Sunk Costs of Exporting and Low Export Survival
Gullstrand, Joakim; Persson, Maria - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2012
survival literature also includes data on decisions to stay in or exit peripheral markets. … will tend to stay on the core market for a long time, they will enter and exit the peripheral market much more frequently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010734809
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Exploring the Duration of EU Imports
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2010
The objective of this paper is twofold. First, against the background of an existing empirical literature on the duration of trade which has found that international trade is often of strikingly short duration, we aim to establish whether or not EU imports from the rest of the world also are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565790
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Exploring the Evolution of Trade Survival Since 1962
Hess, Wolfgang; Persson, Maria - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2011
Aiming to explore how the survival of trade flows has evolved over time, we analyze a rich data set of detailed imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020160
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Survival in Export Markets
Albornoz, Facundo; Hallak, Juan Carlos; Fanelli, Sebastián - Departamento de Economía, Universidad de San Andrés - 2014
This paper explores the determinants of firm survival in export markets. Our theoretical framework includes a geometric …- and market-specific profitability shifters that are constant over time. We derive the probability of survival upon entry … the profitability shifters. Also, we show that the survival probability is unaffected by fixed costs if sunk costs are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011189198
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Die neue neue Außenhandelstheorie: das Melitz-Modell
Hofmann, Patricia - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre und Statistik, … - 2009
Standard international trade lectures normally comprises three central theories: the Ricardian Model, the Heckscher-Ohlin-Samuelson Modell and New Trade Theory `a la Krugman 1979 and 1980. Nowadays this trilogy needs to be enhanced with the basic concepts of a new class of trade models: the New...
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