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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138753
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity: Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179786
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Import liberalization as export destruction? : evidence from the United States
Breinlich, Holger; Leromain, Elsa; Novy, Dennis; … - 2022
How does import protection affect export performance? In trade models with scale economies, import liberalization can reduce industry-level exports by cutting domestic production. We show that this export destruction mechanism reduced US export growth following the permanent normalization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817913
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Multiproduct Firms, Export Product Scope, and Trade Liberalization: The Role of Managerial Efficiency
Qiu, Larry; YU, Miaojie - Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) - 2014
This paper provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of the effects of one-sided tariff cuts on firms’ export product scope. The theoretical model explicitly incorporates cost of management in addition to the commonly used production cost. The analysis predicts that the home country’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010925539
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Multiproduct Firms, Export Product Scope, and Trade Liberalization: The Role of Managerial Efficiency
Qiu, Larry; Yu, Miaojie - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), … - 2014
cost. Firms are heterogeneous in terms of managerial efficiency but homogenous in terms of production productivity. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010736511
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The trade effects of anti-dumping duties : firm-level evidence from China
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Sandkamp, Alexander-Nikolai - 2018
This paper uses Chinese customs data to investigate the trade effects of anti-dumping (AD) policies. Merging firm-level exports to firm-specific AD duties, we exploit differences across firms within products. This reduces endogeneity concerns which have plagued earlier research. Based on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897777
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Trade Liberalization, Input Intermediaries and Firm Productivity : Evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice - 2019
We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857766
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All-around trade liberalization and firm-level employment : theory and evidence from China
Rodríguez López, Antonio; Yu, Miaojie - 2017
job destruction in low-productivity firms and job creation in high-productivity firms. In contrast, the net effect of … reductions in Chinese input tariffs is limited to job destruction in low-productivity ordinary exporters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011743088
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Wage Inequality and Input Trade Liberalization : Firm-Level Evidence from China
Bo, Chen; Yu, Miaojie; Yu, Zhihao - 2013
This paper investigates how input trade liberalization affects fi rm-level wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labor. A fall in input tariffs generates increased fi rm pro fits, which, in turn, widens wage inequality since skilled labor enjoys a larger proportion of the incremental pro...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014153497
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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China
Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180914