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In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …
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In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm … economic activity. -- firm heterogeneity ; agglomeration ; technological change ; trade ; labor mobility …
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terms of productivity than non-traders when agglomeration rises. Firms that are stable participants of international trade … gain 16 % in terms of total factor productivity growth as agglomeration doubles while non-traders may not benefit from … agglomeration at all. Results also suggest that traders' productivity premium is most apparent in urbanised economies. …
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agglomeration force. Indeed, the introduction of taste heterogeneity makes an initiallydispersed economy less dispersed and an …
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We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number andthe location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases whentrade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production intoa single country, which is likely to be the...
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We develop a model of commodity tax competition with monopolistically competitive internationallymobile firms, transport costs, and asymmetric country sizes. We investigate the impacts of noncooperativetax setting, as well as of tax harmonization and changes in the tax principle, in both...
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terms of productivity than non-traders when agglomeration rises. Firms that are stable participants of international trade … gain 16 % in terms of total factor productivity growth as agglomeration doubles while non-traders may not benefit from … agglomeration at all. Results also suggest that traders' productivity premium is most apparent in urbanised economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003919704