's institutional trade liberalisation should - via lowering fixed costs for rest of the world exporters - increase with decreasing …

's (1994) hypothesis of fixed costs of technology adoption when the state of technology is operationalised as the variety of …

innovation affects overall innovation in the aggregate economy in different directions depending on the costs of external … the U.S. while increasing that in an economy with high external innovation costs. These findings highlight that the change …

's institutional trade liberalisation should - via lowering fixed costs for rest of the world exporters - increase with decreasing …

general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that builds on this insight to separate the roles of iceberg costs and … matching frictions in gravity. In the cross section, we find matching frictions as important as iceberg costs in impeding trade … 2004 expansion of the European Union, reduced iceberg costs and reduced matching frictions contributed equally to the …