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Product Standards and Margins of Trade: Firm Level Evidence

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2013

This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the...

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Business Conditions and Default Risks Across Countries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

The risk of default that business firms face is very significant and differs widely across countries. This paper explores the links between countries’ business conditions and international trade embedment and the default risk at the country level from a theoretical point of view. Our main...

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On the Development Strategy of Countries of Intermediate size - An Analysis of Heterogenous Fims in a Multiregion Framework

Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

This paper compares two policies: trade cost reduction and firm relocation cost reduction using a three-country version of a heterogeneous-firms economic geography model, where the three countries have different market (population) size. We show how the effects of the two policies differ, in...

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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

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On the development strategy of countries of intermediate size - An analysis of heterogenous firms in a multiregion framework

Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

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Trade and Industrial Policies with Heterogeneous Firms: The Role of Country Asymmetries

Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788688

Exporting strategies of heterogeneous firms subject to export shocks and financial restraints

Virginia, Di Nino - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2008

This paper develops an open economy firm-heterogeneous model where the combination of market rigidities and exchange rate uncertainty acts like a barrier to trade and modifies a firm's optimal choice in terms of production and pricing. The existence of price and labour rigidities, coupled with...

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Firm Heterogeneity, Rules of Origin and Rules of Cumulation

Bombarda, Pamela; Gamberoni, Elisa - International Economics Section, The Graduate Institute … - 2008

We analyse the impact of relaxing rules of origin (ROOs) in a simple setting with heterogeneous firms that buy intermediate inputs from domestic and foreign sources. In particular, we consider the impact of switching from bilateral to diagonal cumulation when using preferences (instead of paying...

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On the development strategy of countries of intermediate size—An analysis of heterogeneous firms in a multi-region framework

Forslid, Rikard; Okubo, Toshihiro - In: European Economic Review 56 (2012) 4, pp. 747-756

This paper compares two policies: trade cost reduction and firm relocation cost reduction using a three-country version of a heterogeneous-firms geography and trade model, where the three countries have different market (population) sizes. We show how the effects of the two policies differ, in...

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Trade, wages and productivity

Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

elasticity and multiple asymmetric regions, in which trade integration induces wage and productivity changes. Using Canada … productivity. Given the estimated parameter values, we first decompose border effects into a pure border effect, relative and … Canada-US border on regional market aggregates such as wages, productivity, markups, the mass of varieties produced and …

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