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Trade Costs and the Agglomeration of Production
Cafiso, Gianluca - 2011
The object of this paper is to study the evolution of trade costs and of the agglomeration of production, as well as their relation. The Home Market Effect prescribes increasing agglomeration when trade costs decrease because it is supposed to strengthen. We study the joint variation of trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131015
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Information matters : a theoretical comparison of some cross-border trade barriers
Wilson, Christopher - 2016
There is widespread evidence that geographical borders reduce trade. This paper presents a theoretical model capable of providing a succinct comparison of three broad forms of trade barriers involving i) trade costs, ii) localized tastes, and iii) information frictions. Despite being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454122
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Multimarket Linkages, Cartel Discipline and Trade Costs
Agnosteva, Delina - 2018
We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926563
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Multimarket linkages, cartel discipline and trade costs
Agnosteva, Delina; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017
We build a model of tacit collusion between firms that operate in multiple markets to study the effects of trade costs. A key feature of the model is that cartel discipline is endogenous. Thus, markets that appear segmented are strategically linked via the incentive compatibility constraint....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781965
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Gravity, distance, and international trade
Baier, Scott L.; Kerr, Amanda; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2017
We review and interpret the main theoretical developments in the gravity literature from its very early, a-theoretical applications to the latest structural contributions. We also discuss challenges and implement methods to estimate empirical gravity equations. We finish with a presentation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611143
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Icebergs versus tariffs : a quantitative perspective on the gains from trade ; conference paper
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin; Larch, Mario - 2013
We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall … the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and Rodriguez-Clare (2012) to encompass revenue-generating import tariffs. Our formula … countries with relatively high status quo tariffs, our formula predicts 30-60\% larger gains from trade than the icebergs only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344632
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Modelling inter-regional trade flows : data and methodological issues in Rhomolo
Ivanova, Olga; Kancs, d’Artis; Stelder, Dirk - 2010
The present paper studies the modelling of inter-regional trade flows in the newly developed general equilibrium model of European Commission, Rhomolo. In contrast to international trade, usually, trade of goods and services between regions is not recorded statistically. As a result, no...
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Firms in international trade
Díez, Federico J.; Mora, Jesse; Spearot, Alan C. - 2016 - This version: December 2016
Firms play a critical role in the global economy. In this paper, we survey the behavior of firms in the international economy, both in theory and in the data. We first summarize the key empirical facts that motivate the study of firms in trade. Then, we detail recent theoretical developments on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011610238
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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs
Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016
Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011432543
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Credit constraints, quality, and export prices : theory and evidence from China
Fan, Haichao; Lai, Edwin L.-C.; Li, Yao Amber - 2013
exports. The paper modifies Arkolakisś (2010) model of trade with heterogeneous firms by introducing endogenous quality and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009786048