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Self-selection along different export and import markets

Serti, Francesco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2009

, productivity and distance may impact on firms' performances. …

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Firm heterogeneity: Do destinations of exports and origins of imports matter?

Serti, Francesco; Tomasi, Chiara - 2008

How do importing activities matter in explaining firm heterogeneity? How firm performances are related to foreign markets heterogeneity? Using a rich database on Italian manufacturing firms, this essay adds new evidence on the relationship between trade status and firm characteristics. We...

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Implications of firm heterogeneity for offshoring, wage and employment

Chen, Xi - 2018

condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy …

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Exports, foreign direct investment and productivity: evidence from German firm level data

Wagner, Joachim - 2005

first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of foreign …

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Unionisation structures and heterogeneous firms

Braun, Sebastian - 2009

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

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Firms' international status and heterogeneity in performance: Evidence from Italy

Casaburi, Lorenzo; Gattai, Valeria; Minerva, G. Alfredo - 2008

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

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The informal sector in contemporary models of the aggregate economy

Leal, Julio - 2014

I review a contemporary branch of the informal sector literature that focus on understanding the way firm behavior is affected by the presence of informality and how such distortions have an impact on aggregate variables. The authors in this group all make use of dynamic general equilibrium...

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Market power, productivity and distribution of wages: Theory and evidence with micro data

Shepotylo, Oleksandr; Vakhitov, Volodymyr - 2020

show that they increase with firm's output and market size. We find that wage rises with firm's productivity, but fall with …

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A replication of "The role of intermediaries in facilitating trade" (Journal of International Economics, 2011)

Duan, Jianhua; Xuefeng, Qian; Das, Kuntal K.; … - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 14 (2020) 2020-21, pp. 1-30

This study replicates Ahn, Khandelwal, and Wei's (2011) model of intermediary trade. The study produces two main results. First, the authors are able to reproduce empirical evidence for AKW's three main predictions for Chinese exports. This is impressive because much of the data for their...

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Risk-taking, capital allocation and optimal monetary policy

David, Joel M.; Zeke, David - 2021

total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenous and depends on the resource allocation. The model uncovers a novel tradeoff …

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