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Who Profits from Trade Facilitation Initiatives?

Hoekman, Bernard; Shepherd, Ben - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation—measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...

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Do Foreign Investors Care About Labour Market Regulations?

Javorcik, Beata; Spatareanu, Mariana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This study takes a new look at the regulatory determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) by asking whether labour … increases from inflexible (e.g. France) to flexible (e.g. United Kingdom), the volume of investment goes up by between 12% and … 26%. FDI in services sectors appears to be more sensitive to labour market regulations than investment in manufacturing. …

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Openness to Trade and Industry Cost Dispersion: Evidence from a Panel of Italian Firms

Del Gatto, Massimo; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Pagnini, Marcello - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We use Italian firm-level data to investigate the impact of trade openness on the distribution of firms across marginal cost levels. In so doing, we implement a procedure that allows us to control not only for the standard transmission bias identified in firm-level TFP regressions but also for...

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Trade Integration, Firm Selection and the Costs of Non-Europe

Del Gatto, Massimo; Mion, Giordano; Ottaviano, Gianmarco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

and variable markups using firm-level data and aggregate trade figures on a panel of 11 EU countries. We find that EU …

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On the Genesis of Multinational Foreign Affiliate Networks

Egger, Peter; Fahn, Matthias; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

correlated learning may render it optimal to enter markets sequentially – an investment in market A is only followed by entry in …

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Low-Wage Countries' Competition, Reallocation Across Firms and the Quality Content of Exports

Martin, Julien; Méjean, Isabelle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What is the impact of low-wage countries' competition on the quality of high-wage countries' exports? To answer this question, we develop a new method that uses firm-level data to measure quality changes in sectoral exports. Over 1995-2005, we measure a 11% increase in the mean quality of...

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Import Competition and Exit in Business Services Sectors

Bombarda, Pamela; McCann, Fergal; Toubal, Farid - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Business services firms are increasingly under pressure from foreign competition. We develop an oligopolistic competition model that studies the effect of trade liberalization on exit and sectoral restructuring in the business services sector. We assume that firms are heterogeneous in their...

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Sectoral Technology and Structural Transformation

Herrendorf, Berthold; Herrington, Christopher; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper assesses how structural transformation is affected by sectoral differences in labor-augmenting technological progress, capital intensity, and substitutability between capital and labor. We estimate CES production functions for agriculture, manufacturing, and services on postwar US...

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Which International Institutions Promote International Trade?

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

‘gravity’ model of bilateral merchandise trade and a large panel data set covering over 50 years and 175 countries. My results …

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Size Really Doesn't Matter: In Search of a National Scale Effect

Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

I search for a 'scale' effect in countries. I use a panel data set that includes 200 countries over forty years and …

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