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Product standards and margins of trade: Firm level evidence
Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 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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Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence From German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
-border versus foreign-affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083635
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Firm Heterogeneity and Aggregate Welfare
Melitz, Marc J; Redding, Stephen J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
homogeneous firm model that is a special case of a heterogeneous firm model with a degenerate productivity distribution. Keeping … all structural parameters besides the productivity distribution the same, we show that the two models have different … quantitatively important (up to a few percentage points of GDP). Under the assumption of a Pareto productivity distribution, the two …
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Cross-Border and Foreign-Affiliate Sales of Services: Evidence from German Micro-Data
Kelle, Markus; Kleinert, Jörn; Raff, Horst; Toubal, Farid - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2012
-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010561643
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Home Market Effect, regulation costs and heterogeneous firms.
Okubo, Toshihiro; Rebeyrol, Vincent - Maison des Sciences Économiques, Université Paris 1 … - 2006
agglomeration force. Firm heterogeneity causes a perfectspatial sorting, in which a large country attracts only high productivity …
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Business Conditions and Default Risks across Countries
Pflüger, Michael P.; Russek, Stephan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854768
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Variable Trade Costs, Composition Effects, and the Intensive Margin of Trade.
Berthou, A.; Fontagné, L. - Banque de France - 2015
We estimate the elasticity of extra-EU French firm-level exports with respect to applied tariffs, a variable trade cost. We propose a methodology controlling for unobserved firm characteristics driving selection in exports market and for the usual resistance terms. Results confirm a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011207677
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Regional integration in Africa : challenges and prospects
De Melo, Jaime; Tsikata, Yvonne M. - 2014
Political motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across Africa make a compelling case for these economies to...
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Intersectoral markup divergence
Behrens, Kristian; Kichko, Sergey; Ushchev, Philip - 2018
We develop a general equilibrium model of monopolistic competition with a traded and a non-traded sector. Using a broad class of homothetic preferences - that generate variable markups, display a simple behavior of their elasticity of substitution, and nest the ces as a limiting case - we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011814939
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Regional integration in Africa: Challenges and prospects
De Melo, Jaime; Tsikata, Yvonne - 2014
Political motives, geography, and the uneven distribution of gains trumped the traditional efficiency gains across Africa's Regional Economic Communities (RECs). The small, sparsely populated, fragmented, and often isolated economies across Africa make a compelling case for these economies to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343196