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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 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/10005035520
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Falling trade costs, heterogeneous firms and industry dynamics
Bernard, Andrew Barnes; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, … - 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/10010292937
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - Centre for Economic Performance, 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/10005797195
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter - Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) - 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/10005811372
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Firms in International Trade
Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen James; Schott, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085327
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - 2012
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/10014031018
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - 2012
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/10014031068
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Falling Trade Costs, Heterogeneous Firms, and Industry Dynamics
Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K.; Bernard, Andrew B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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/10005575722
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Firm Structure, Multinationals, and Manufacturing Plant Deaths
Jensen, J. Bradford; Bernard, Andrew - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2005
Plant shutdowns shape industry and aggregate productivity paths and play a major role in the dynamics of employment and … closures. Using U.S. data, we find that plants belonging to multi-plant firms are less likely to exit. Similarly, plants owned … by U.S. multinationals are less likely to close. However, the superior survival chances are due to the characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005058832
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Firm Structure, Multinationals, and Manufacturing Plant Deaths
Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford - Peter G. Peterson Institute for International Economics … - 2006
likely to exit. However, the superior survival chances are due to the characteristics of the plants rather than the nature of …Plant shutdowns shape industry productivity, the dynamics of employment, and industrial restructuring. Plant closures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005035524