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Foreign Market Conditions and Export Performance: Does 'Crowdedness' Reduce Exports?
Breinlich, Holger; Tucci, Alessandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
barriers impeding their access. We estimate this specification on a large sample of Italian manufacturing firms between 1992 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611013
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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on manufacturing goods are not suited to explain the strong and negative … correlation between distance to the world's main markets and levels of manufacturing activity in the developing world. Secondly … the ratio of agricultural to manufacturing productivity and shares of manufacturing in GDP. This paper provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009207519
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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on manufacturing goods are not suited to explain the strong and negative … correlation between distance to the world's main markets and levels of manufacturing activity in the developing world. Secondly … the ratio of agricultural to manufacturing productivity and shares of manufacturing in GDP. This paper provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323008
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Trade liberalization and industrial restructuring through mergers and acquisitions
Breinlich, Holger - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
This paper analyzes mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a previously neglected channel of industrial restructuring in the face of trade liberalization. Using the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement of 1989 as a natural experiment, I show that trade liberalization leads to a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745235
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Service traders in the UK
Breinlich, Holger; Criscuolo, Chiara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
, the frequency and trade intensity of services traders is often higher in sectors such as high- tech manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746380
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Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization: A quantitative analysis
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 133-153
We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or … and levels of manufacturing activity; (ii) there is a positive correlation between the ratio of agricultural to … manufacturing productivity and shares of manufacturing in GDP. Our calibrated model replicates these facts and also provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011065912
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Geography, Non-Homotheticity, and Industrialization: A Quantitative Analysis
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - CESifo - 2012
We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or … and levels of manufacturing activity; (ii) there is a positive correlation between the ratio of agricultural to … manufacturing productivity and shares of manufacturing in GDP. Our calibrated model replicates these facts and also provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010570050
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Merger policy in a quantitative model of international trade
Breinlich, Holger; Nocke, Volker; Schutz, Nicolas - 2015
In a two-country international trade model with oligopolistic competition, we study the conditions on market structure and trade costs under which a merger policy designed to benefit domestic consumers is too tough or too lenient from the viewpoint of the foreign country. Calibrating the model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350852
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Tariffs, Trade and Productivity: A Quantitative Evaluation of Heterogeneous Firm Models
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We examine the quantitative predictions of heterogeneous firm models à la Melitz (2003) in the context of the Canada - US Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA) of 1989. We compute predicted increases in trade flows and measured productivity across a range of standard models and compare them to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083215
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Geography, non-homotheticity, and industrialization: A quantitative analysis
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - 2012
We propose a quantitative framework for the analysis of industrialization in which specialization in manufacturing or … and levels of manufacturing activity; (ii) there is a positive correlation between the ratio of agricultural to … manufacturing productivity and shares of manufacturing in GDP. Our calibrated model replicates these facts and also provides a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288229