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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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The micro-economics of export supply : firm-level evidence from Mexico
Cebreros, Alfonso - 2019
This paper uses firm-level data for Mexican exporters to understand how firm-level export decisions shape a country's aggregate exports. The data allows for a characterization of both the crosssectional distribution of Mexican exports, across destinations and across exporting firms, and of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012166191
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The exporter wage premium when firms and workers are heterogeneous
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo; Moser, … - 2017
We set up a trade model with heterogeneous firms and a worker population that is heterogeneous in two dimensions: workers are either skilled or unskilled, and within each skill category there is a continuum of abilities. Workers with high abilities, both skilled and unskilled, are matched to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011700622
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A structural quantitative analysis of services trade de-liberalization
Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2018
This paper suggests a quantifiable multi-sector-multi-country economic model of goods and services production and consumption. It calibrates overall (variable and fixed) costs to market-specific sales by sector and decomposes these costs into observable and unobservable components. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011945050
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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012
-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009535116
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686530
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Asset Ownership and Foreign-Market Entry
Raff, Horst - 2006
This paper examines the link between a firm's ownership of productive assets and its choice of foreign-market entry strategy. We find that, controlling for industry - and country-specific characteristics, the most productive firms (i.e., those owning the most assets) will enter through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780461
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Sales and Markup Dispersion : Theory and Empirics
Mrazova, Monika - 2019
We derive exact conditions relating the distributions of firm productivity, sales, output, and markups to the form of … Marginal Revenue): it is necessary and sufficient for the distributions of productivity and sales to have the same form …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892151
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Cross-border and foreign-affiliate sales of services : evidence from German micro-data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - 2012
-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540827
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The dynamics of trade and competition
Chen, Natalie; Imbs, Jean; Scott, Andrew - 2006
prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011623991