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-border versus foreign affiliate sales. We find that for firms in our sample productivity is both a statistically significant and …
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The robust empirical finding that exporting firms are systematically different from firms that merely serve domestic consumers has inspired the development of a new brand of trade theory, the theory of heterogeneous firms and trade. The establishment of a canonical model due to Melitz (2003) has...
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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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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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neoclassical theories, the results show that even a small difference in the ex-ante productivity distribution between North and …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005061476
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037458
neoclassical theories, the results show that even a small difference in the ex-ante productivity distribution between North and …
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An understanding of the spatial dimension of economic and social activity requires methods that can separate out the relationship between spatial units that is due to the effect of common factors from that which is purely spatial even in an abstract sense. The same applies to the empirical...
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firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor … productivity rises by just 1.02%. Consumers’ exposure to market power falls sizably by up to 12.11% in the Canadian provinces, and …
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