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Credit frictions, selection into external finance, and gains from trade

Unger, Florian - 2019

This paper analyzes the effects of credit frictions in a trade model where heterogeneous firms select both into exporting and into two types of external finance. In our framework, small producers face stronger credit frictions, pay a higher borrowing rate and rely on bank finance, whereas large...

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Financial Development and Export Concentration

Unger, Florian - 2023

a trade model with heterogeneous exporters and endogenous quality choice. The model predicts that financial development … increases innovation activity and export shares of larger firms. In contrast, a model variant in which exporters have to finance … firms, especially in sectors with high external finance dependence and large scope for quality differentiation. This effect …

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Demand and Supply Side Linkages in Exporting Multiproduct Firms

Eckel, Carsten; Flach, Lisandra; Meng, Ning - 2023

Products produced by a multiproduct firm can be linked through demand linkages or supply linkages. On the demand side, changes in the price of one product can affect the demand for a firm's other products through shifts in consumer expenditures. This is commonly referred to as the...

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Comparative advantage and heterogeneous firms

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - 2004

This paper presents a model of international trade that features heterogeneous firms, relative endowment differences across countries, and consumer taste for variety. The paper demonstrates that firm reactions to trade liberalization generate endogenous Ricardian productivity responses at the...

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International Trade, Flexible Manufacturing and Outsourcing

Eckel, Carsten - 2005

This study analyzes the impact of international trade on the diffusion of flexible manufacturing in a general equilibrium framework. Suppliers produce a flexible base product that can be adapted to the specific input requirements of a continuum of downstream industries. The vertical structure is...

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Unemployment in an interdependent world

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Lechthaler, Wolfgang - 2009

We introduce search and matching unemployment into a model of trade with differentiated goods and heterogeneous firms. Countries may differ with respect to size, geographical location, and labor market institutions. Contrary to the literature, our single-sector perspective pays special attention...

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International trade and retailing: Diversity versus accessibility and the creation of retail deserts

Eckel, Carsten - 2007

The retail sectors in many industrialized countries have experienced a large increase in concentration and the appearance of so-called \retail deserts\, areas of low retail provision. This study addresses the role of international trade in this process. The analysis shows that by raising product...

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International trade and retailing

Eckel, Carsten - 2009

The New Trade Theory predicts that international trade lowers prices for consumers and expands the choices available to them. This study shows that both predictions may no longer hold once adjustments in the retail sector are taken into account. I present a new model of retailing in general...

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Imports and the structure of retail markets

Raff, Horst; Schmitt, Nicolas - 2011

We construct a model of trade with heterogeneous retailers to examine the effects of trade liberalization on retail market structure, imports and social welfare. We are especially interested in investigating the transmission of lower import prices into consumer prices and the effects of retail...

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Firm Dynamics, Job Turnover, and Wage Distributions in an Open Economy

Cosar, A. Kerem; Guner, Nezih; Tybout, James - 2013

This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...

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