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Size-Dependent Regulations, Firm Size Distribution, and Reallocation

Gourio, François - 2013

In France, firms with 50 employees or more face substantially more regulation than firms with less than 50. As a result, the size distribution of firms is visibly distorted: there are many firms with exactly 49 employees. We model the regulation as the combination of a sunk cost that must be...

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From new imported inputs to new exported products : firm-level evidence from Sweden

Castellani, Davide; Fassio, Claudio - In: Research policy : policy, management and economic … 48 (2019) 1, pp. 322-338

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Contracts, firm dynamics and aggregate productivity

Lopez-Martin, Bernabe; Perez-Reyna, David - 2019

We construct a framework of firm dynamics to evaluate the impact of the enforcement of contracts between final goods producers and their intermediate goods suppliers on firm growth, technology accumulation, and aggregate productivity. We build upon the static contracts model of Acemoglu et al....

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Fixed export costs and export behavior

Castro, Luis; Li, Ben; Maskus, Keith E.; Xie, Yiqing - 2014

This paper provides a direct test of how fixed export costs and productivity jointly determine firm-level export behavior. Using Chilean data, we construct indices of fixed export costs for each industry-region-year triplet and match them to domestic firms. Our empirical results show that firms...

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Concentration in International Markets: Evidence from US Imports

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021

margin: the number of exporting firms has grown, and the number of exported products has fallen relatively more for top firms …

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Concentration in international markets: Evidence from US imports

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2019

margin: the number of exporting firm has grown, and the number of exported products has fallen more for top firms. Instead …

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International Trade with Heterogeneous Firms: Theory and Evidence

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021

documented that exporting is a rare activity, that exporting firms are larger and more productive than other firms, and that … heterogeneous and highly concentrated. Second, both the extensive margin (number of exporting firms) and the intensive margin … multinational firms, the import behavior of firms, and the extent to which heterogeneity is endogenous to firms. choices, but some …

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Tax collection, the informal sector, and productivity

Leal-Ordoñez, Julio C. - 2013

Some authors argue that informality is associated with distorted firm decisions and inefficiency. In this paper, I assess the quantitative effect of incomplete tax enforcement on aggregate output and productivity using a dynamic general equilibrium framework. I calibrate the model using data for...

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Demand for Cheap Transport by Government Workers and Production in the Public Sector

Nyamandwe, Jane; Gambiza, Elsie T; Bonga, Wellington Garikai - 2021

The Zimbabwean nation has been struggling to gain economic development momentum in the multicurrency era despite numerous efforts being made by policy makers. The economy has since operated with budget deficits and high consumption expenditures in the form of wages for civil servants and little...

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Contracts, Firm Dynamics and Aggregate Productivity

Lopez-Martin, Bernabe - 2018

We construct a framework of firm dynamics to evaluate the impact of the enforcement of contracts between final goods producers and their intermediate goods suppliers on firm life-cycle growth, technology accumulation and aggre-gate productivity. We build upon the tractable contracts model of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909593