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Trade Liberalization and Industry Dynamics
Álvarez, Roberto; López, Ricardo - In: Open Economies Review 23 (2012) 4, pp. 579-595
the number of firms, the average size of surviving firms, and markups. We extend previous studies by examining not only … in home tariffs decreases the number of establishments, firms average size, and markups. All of these three effects are … to be reflecting an increase in export profitability), a decrease in average size, while markups are mostly unaffected …
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Free Trade Agreements and Firm-Product Markups in Chilean Manufacturing
Lamorgese, A. R.; Linarello, A.; Warzynski, Frederic - School of Economics and Management, University of Aarhus - 2014
prices, markups and productivity. We document these effects using firm product level data in Chilean manufacturing following … markups, suggesting that firms do not fully pass-through increases in productivity on prices whenever they have enough …
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Firm Performance in a Global Market
Loecker, Jan De; Goldberg, Pinelopi Koujianou - In: Annual Review of Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 201-227
In this article, we introduce an empirical framework to analyze how firm performance is affected by increased globalization. Using this framework, we discuss recent work on measuring the impact of various shocks firms face in the global marketplace, such as reductions in trade costs (through...
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Demand for Differentiated Milk Products: Implications for Price Competition
Lopez, Elena; Lopez, Rigoberto - Zwick Center for Food and Resource Policy, Department … - 2008
(1995). Empirical results show that private label milks have the highest markups in spite of lower prices, which may explain …
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The Impact of Maximum Markup Regulation on Prices
Genakos, Christos; Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Pagliero, Mario - Collegio Carlo Alberto, Università degli Studi di Torino - 2014
We study the repeal of a regulation that imposed maximum wholesale and retail markups for all but five fresh fruits and …
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The Impact of Maximum Markup Regulation on Prices
Genakos, Christos; Koutroumpis, Pantelis; Pagliero, Mario - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
We study the repeal of a regulation that imposed maximum wholesale and retail markups for all but five fresh fruits and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945134
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Price, Markups and Trade Reforms
Loecker, Jan De - eSocialSciences - 2014
This paper examines how prices, markups and marginal costs respond to trade liberalization. Multi-product firms are …
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Spatial frictions
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), … - 2014
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
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Cost leadership and bank internationalization
Galema, Rients; Koetter, Michael; Liesegang, Caroline - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013
We adapt a theoretical model from the goods trade literature to test whether banks with a comparative cost advantage are more likely to enter foreign markets by means of foreign direct investment. We combine detailed proprietary bank-level data on the international activities of all German banks...
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The Effects of Permanent Markup Shocks in Canada – revised version: Markups and Oil Prices in Canada (12 October 2012)
Khan, Hashmat; Kim, Bae-Geun - Carleton University, Department of Economics - 2011
The markup in Canada has exhibited non-stationary movements, rising steadily since the early 1990s. This implies the presence of a permanent markup shock which causes the desired markup ratio to shift permanently. It is shown that after a permanent positive markup shock, output, per-capita...
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