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Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2009

We develop a new general equilibrium model of trade with heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities and endogenously determined wages. Trade integration favours wage convergence, boosts competition, and forces the least efficient firms to leave the market, thereby affecting aggregate...

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Trade, wages and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2009

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Entry on export markets and firm-level performance growth : intra-industrial convergence or divergence?

Mayneris, Florian - 2010

This paper investigates theoretically and empirically the endogenous investment decision of firms conditioning on export decision. It shows that theoretically, whatever the form of preferences, firms that start exporting invest more and grow more than the others. However, it is shown that when...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008749631

The Costs of Rules of Origin in Apparel : African Preferential Exports to the United States and the European Union

Portugal-Perez, Alberto - 2010

The European Union and the United States offer, simultaneously, preferential market access to exports of a group of …. This paper aims to assess econometrically the impact of different RoO on those African countries' exports. The main finding … is that relaxing RoO by allowing the use of fabric of any origin increased exports of apparel by about 300 per cent for …

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Who gains from better access to credit? : credit reform and reallocation of resources

Arnold, Jens Matthias; Flach, Lisandra - 2017

Brazil's 2005 bankruptcy law reform strengthened creditor protection, resulting in a substantial acceleration of credit expansion and business investment growth. In this paper, we go beyond average effects and examine to what extent the pro-creditor reform affected the allocation of resources...

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A unified theory of firm selection and growth

Arkolakis, Costas - 2009

This paper develops a theory of firm selection and growth and embeds it into an international trade framework of balanced growth. I assume that firm-level growth is the result of idiosyncratic productivity improvements while there is continuous arrival of new potential producers. Firms can also...

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Plant Exit and U.S. Imports from Low-Wage Countries

Cooke, Abigail - 2016

Over the past twenty years, imports to the U.S. from low-wage countries have increased dramatically. In this paper we examine how low-wage country import competition in the U.S. influences the probability of manufacturing establishment closure. Confidential data from the U.S. Bureau of the...

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - 2014

Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that US firms face in these markets is strongly driven by the prices of Chinese imports, and so is their pricing decision. This paper quantifies the effect of the...

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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the Renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - 2012

This paper quantifies the effect of the government-controlled appreciation of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) vis-à-vis the USD from 2005 to 2008 on the prices charged by US producers. As the RMB during that time was pegged to a basket of currencies, the empirical strategy must account for the fact...

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Exchange rate pass-through, domestic competition, and inflation : evidence from the 2005/08 revaluation of the renminbi

Auer, Raphael A. - 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010493916

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