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The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

A fundamental question in monopolistic competition theory is whether the market allocates resources efficiently. This paper generalizes the Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz framework to heterogeneous firms, addressing when the market provides optimal quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant...

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Shifts in Economic Geography and their Causes

Venables, Anthony J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

This paper analyses some of the forces that are changing the spatial distribution of activity in the world economy. It draws on the 'new economic geography' literature to argue the importance of increasing returns to scale and cumulative causation processes in shaping the productivity and...

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Cost Reduction Effects of "pseudo FTAs" in Asia -Application of a price model based on a multilateral I/O table-

Tamamura, Chiharu - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper examines the repercussion effects on the production cost of industries in Asian countries when some countries eliminate tariffs and import commodity taxes on all imports. This kind of analysis is related in some sense to that measuring the effects of FTAs on economies, and thus may be...

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Productivity and ICT: A Review of the Evidence

Draca, Mirko; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We survey the micro and macro literature on the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth accounting and econometric evidence suggest an...

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Heterogeneous Firms and Trade

Melitz, Marc J.; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

This paper reviews the new approach to international trade based on firm heterogeneity in differentiated product markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity of exporters relative to non-exporters, within-industry...

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …

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The Roles of Import Competition and Export Opportunities for Technical Change

Steinwender, Claudia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

to export markets, other papers stress the importance of import competition. Since imports and exports (and even tariffs … conducts a "horse race" between export opportunities and import competition. Using Spanish firm level data, instrumenting for … exports and imports with tariff changes and controlling for selection, I find robust evidence that access to export markets …

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Freedom Fries

Michaels, Guy; Zhi, Xiaojia - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Do firms choose inputs that minimize their cost of production, ignoring the attitudes of their owners and employees? We examine this question using an episode of worsening relations between the US and France: from February 2002 to March 2003, France's favorability rating in US public opinion...

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Estimating the effect of chemical safety standards on firm performance in Malaysia and Vietnam

Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Michida, Etsuyo; Nabeshima, Kaoru; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014

such as RoHS and REACH on the production costs and export performance of firms in Malaysia and Vietnam. We find that in … also find that compliance with RoHS and REACH significantly increases the probability of export. Furthermore, we find that … enterprises and firms participating in global value chains generally exhibit better export performance and their costs rise less …

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