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Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...

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Economic Geography and International Inequality

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001

This paper estimates a structural model of economic geography using cross-country data on per capita income, bilateral trade, and the relative price of manufacturing goods. More than 70% of the variation in per capita income can be explained by the geography of access to markets and to sources...

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Factor Price Equalization in the UK?

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity differences, unobserved region- industry factor quality differences and variation in production technology across industries. We test relative factor price equalization across...

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Explaining Cross-Country Export Performance: International Linkages and Internal Geography

Redding, Stephen; Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper investigates the determinants of countries' export performance looking in particular at the role of … decomposition, we move on to an econometric analysis of the determinants of export performance. Results include the finding that … to explaining Sub-Saharan Africa's poor export performance. …

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Distance, Skill Deepening and Development: Will Peripheral Countries Ever Get Rich?

Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper models the relationship between countries' distance from global economic activity, endogenous investments in education, and economic development. Firms in remote locations pay greater trade costs on both exports and intermediate imports, reducing the amount of value added left to...

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History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports

Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel M.; Wolf, Nikolaus - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not necessarily uniquely determined by fundamentals. In these models, historical accident or expectations determine which of several steady-state locations is selected. Despite the theoretical prominence of...

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