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Competition, markups, and the gains from international trade
Edmond, Chris; Midrigan, Virgiliu; Xu, Daniel Yi - 2013
We study the gains from trade in a model with endogenously variable markups. We show that the pro-competitive gains from trade are large if the economy is characterized by (i) extensive misallocation, i.e., large inefficiencies associated with markups, and (ii) a weak pattern of cross-country...
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Export market exit and firm survival: Theory and first evidence
Hiller, Sanne; Schröder, Philipp J. H.; Sørensen, Allan - 2013
productivity not only increases the likelihood of exporting, but also the chances of firm survival and continued export market …
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Occupational choice, aggregate productivity, and trade
Meckl, Jürgen; Weigert, Benjamin - 2011
understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution. …
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Intra-industry trade in agricultural and food products: the case of Ukraine
Luka, Oksana; Levkovych, Inna - 2004
The process of economic transformation in Ukraine is characterized by, among other things, a change in agricultural and food product trading patterns. Ukraine has remained a net exporter of agro-food products, but the total volume and worth, as well as the geographical structure of trade flows,...
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Changes in the Structure of Intra-Visegrad Trade after the Visegrad Countries' Accession to the European Union
Richter, Sandor - 2012
After the EU accession of the Visegrad countries (the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia) in 2004 one of the most remarkable developments was a sudden upturn in mutual trade of this region's countries. In 2007 the value of aggregate intra-Visegrad trade was two and a half times higher...
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Revival of the Visegrad Countries' Mutual Trade after their EU Accession: a Search for Explanation
Foster-McGregor, Neil; Hunya, Gabor; Pindyuk, Olga; … - 2011
significant productivity changes that would influence merchandise exports dynamics of the Visegrad countries. The prevalence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100108
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Intra industry trade expansion and productivity growth
Kaitila, Ville - 2008
productivity growth across 23 EU countries and 94 manufacturing sectors in 1995-2005. The highest MIIT index values are found in … been associated with slower productivity growth. The results indicate that a trade-flow expansion characterised by intra …-industry trade (high MIIT) is associated with faster productivity growth also after we control for the size in trade flow changes …
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Anti-dumping, Intra-industry Trade and Quality Reversals
Moraga-Gonzalez, Jose Luis; Viaene, Jean-Marie - 2004
We examine an export game where two firms (home and foreign), located in two differentcountries, produce vertically differentiated products. The foreign firm is the most efficientin terms of R&D costs of quality development and the foreign country is relatively larger andendowed with a...
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Trade and wage inequality, mirage or reality?
Tomat, Gian Maria - 2010
In the 2X2X2 Heckscher-Ohlin model there exists a one to one relation between relative good prices and relative factor prices. A change in the relative price of one good changes the relative price of the factor used intensively in the production of the good in the same direction. We review this...
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Trade liberalisation, process and product innovation, and relative skill demand
Braun, Sebastian - 2007
The interaction between trade liberalisation, product and process innovation, and relative skill demand is analysed in a model of international oligopoly. Lower trading barriers increase the degree of foreign competition. The competing enterprises respond by investing more aggres- sively in...
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