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Trade Crisis? What Trade Crisis?
July 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide an analysis of the 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. First, They find that changes in firm-country-product exports and imports...
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Speed Money: Time Corruption And Trade
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that longer trade times are associated with higher levels of trade-related corruption, consistent with a theoretical framework in which "Fast" producers earn higher profits than...
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Firm Size, Financial Constraints And Intensive Export Margin
January 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the causal relationship between the extent of external debt financing and the intensive margin of exports for firms of different size. The authors use detailed balance sheet data...
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Do The Biggest Aisles Serve A Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains And Their Implications For Romania
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
During the past two decades many countries have opened their retail sector to foreign direct investment, yet little is known about implications of such liberalization for the economies of host...
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Wage Bargaining And The Boundaries Of The Multinational Firm
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Do variations in labor market institutions across countries affect the cross-border organization of the firm? Using firm-level data on multinationals located in France, the authors show that firms...
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Trade As Engine Of Creative Destruction
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment to evaluate the effects of an exogenous shock from competition on Mexican producers. The effect of this...
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Learning From Trade Through Innovation: Causal Link Between Imports, Exports And Innovation In Spanish And Slovenian Microdata
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper explores the learning from trade hypothesis. The authors argue that the existing literature may have failed to find significant learning effects from trade as it concentrated solely on...
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Southern Innovation And Backward Knowledge Spillovers: A Dynamic FDI Model
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a model in which the proportion of Northern firms choosing to become multinationals is endogenous. In the benchmark model, Northern firms engage in innovation based on the...
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Does International Openness Affect Productivity Of Local Firms? Evidence From Southeastern Europe
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the role of international openness on the change of firm productivity in Southeastern Europe (SEE). This is a crucial question for middle income countries. Using firm-level...
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Asymmetries In The Log-linear Gravity Model
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper draws attention on the importance of asymmetries in HMR-like log-linearized gravity models with homoskedastic errors. The authors propose a version of the HMR model in which the number...
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Globaliztion And Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper focus on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched...
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The Business Environment And Moroccan Firm Productivity
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper focuses on the role of the business environment in understanding differences in the performance of Moroccan firms. The authors use both the Moroccan Annual Census (1997-2004) and...
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Measuring The Cost Of International Trade In Services
October 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments and cross-border trade, they find that...
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The Dynamics Of Firms' Product Portfolio In Response To International Competition: An Empirical Assessment
November 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors use a new dataset containing detailed information about the production structure of a large and representative sample of French manufacturing firms to investigate whether aggregate...
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Hightech-Flyers: Contract Type, Organizational Form, And The Timing To Offshore In The Global HDD Industry
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies firms' decision to start offshore production. The author constructs a comprehensive panel dataset of 178 firms producing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in the world between 1976 and...
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Comparative Advantage And Within-industry Firms Performance
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Guided by empirical evidence the authors consider firms heterogeneity in terms of factor intensity. They show that Heckscher-Ohlin comparative advantage and firm-level relative factor-intensity...
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The Role Of Multinational Enterprises In The Shutdown Of State-owned Enterprises: Evidence From Central And Eastern Europe
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of Multi National Enterprises (MNEs) in the shutdown of former State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe. An oligopoly...
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The Role Of Multinational Enterprises In The Shutdown Of State-owned Enterprises: Evidence From Central And Eastern Europe
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the role of Multi National Enterprises (MNEs) in the shutdown of former State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe. An oligopoly...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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Comparative Advantage And Within-industry Firms Performance
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Guided by empirical evidence the authors consider firms heterogeneity in terms of factor intensity. They show that Heckscher-Ohlin comparative advantage and firm-level relative factor-intensity...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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White Papers
Hightech-Flyers: Contract Type, Organizational Form, And The Timing To Offshore In The Global HDD Industry
December 16, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper studies firms' decision to start offshore production. The author constructs a comprehensive panel dataset of 178 firms producing Hard Disk Drives (HDDs) in the world between 1976 and...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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White Papers
The Dynamics Of Firms' Product Portfolio In Response To International Competition: An Empirical Assessment
November 29, 2010, 12:00am PST
The authors use a new dataset containing detailed information about the production structure of a large and representative sample of French manufacturing firms to investigate whether aggregate...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Measuring The Cost Of International Trade In Services
October 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments and cross-border trade, they find that...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
The Business Environment And Moroccan Firm Productivity
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper focuses on the role of the business environment in understanding differences in the performance of Moroccan firms. The authors use both the Moroccan Annual Census (1997-2004) and...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Globaliztion And Imperfect Labor Market Sorting
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper focus on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given industry and the role that globalization plays in that process. Using matched...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Asymmetries In The Log-linear Gravity Model
August 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper draws attention on the importance of asymmetries in HMR-like log-linearized gravity models with homoskedastic errors. The authors propose a version of the HMR model in which the number...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Does International Openness Affect Productivity Of Local Firms? Evidence From Southeastern Europe
November 20, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the role of international openness on the change of firm productivity in Southeastern Europe (SEE). This is a crucial question for middle income countries. Using firm-level...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Southern Innovation And Backward Knowledge Spillovers: A Dynamic FDI Model
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors develop a model in which the proportion of Northern firms choosing to become multinationals is endogenous. In the benchmark model, Northern firms engage in innovation based on the...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Learning From Trade Through Innovation: Causal Link Between Imports, Exports And Innovation In Spanish And Slovenian Microdata
June 15, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The paper explores the learning from trade hypothesis. The authors argue that the existing literature may have failed to find significant learning effects from trade as it concentrated solely on...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Trade As Engine Of Creative Destruction
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment to evaluate the effects of an exogenous shock from competition on Mexican producers. The effect of this...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Wage Bargaining And The Boundaries Of The Multinational Firm
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Do variations in labor market institutions across countries affect the cross-border organization of the firm? Using firm-level data on multinationals located in France, the authors show that firms...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Do The Biggest Aisles Serve A Brighter Future? Global Retail Chains And Their Implications For Romania
December 14, 2009, 12:00am PST
During the past two decades many countries have opened their retail sector to foreign direct investment, yet little is known about implications of such liberalization for the economies of host...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Firm Size, Financial Constraints And Intensive Export Margin
January 31, 2010, 12:00am PST
The paper studies the causal relationship between the extent of external debt financing and the intensive margin of exports for firms of different size. The authors use detailed balance sheet data...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Speed Money: Time Corruption And Trade
February 26, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper shows that longer trade times are associated with higher levels of trade-related corruption, consistent with a theoretical framework in which "Fast" producers earn higher profits than...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
-
White Papers
Trade Crisis? What Trade Crisis?
July 22, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide an analysis of the 2008-2009 trade collapse using microdata from a small open economy, Belgium. First, They find that changes in firm-country-product exports and imports...
Provided by Forum for Research in Emprical International Trade
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