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Geography and the Determinants of Firm Exports in Indonesia

Farole, Thomas; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Tselios, Vassilis; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper uses data from the Indonesian manufacturing census in order to uncover the determinants of firm exports over the period 1990-2005. We examine to what extent differences in firm export propensity and intensity are a consequence of firm-level (microeconomic), of place-based...

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The Core-Periphery Model With Forward-Looking Expectations

Baldwin, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

The 'core-periphery model' is vitiated by its assumption of static expectations. That is, migration (inter-regional or … migration predictably alters wages and workers are (implicitly) infinitely lived. The assumption was necessary for tractability …. Surprisingly, we find that if migration costs are sufficiently high, allowing forward-looking behaviour changes nothing, so static …

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Income-Induced Expenditure Switching

Bems, Rudolfs; di Giovanni, Julian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper shows that an income effect can drive expenditure switching between domestic and foreign goods. We use a unique Latvian scanner-level dataset for food and beverages, covering the 2008-09 financial crisis, to study (i) relative price movements, and (ii) expenditure switching between...

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Can Comparative Advantage Explain the Growth of US Trade?

Cuñat, Alejandro; Maffezzoli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We present a dynamic comparative advantage model in which moderate reductions in import tariffs can generate sizable increases in trade volumes over time. A fall in import tariffs has two effects on the volume of trade. First, for given factor endowments, it raises the degree of specialization...

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Learning and Dynamic Comparative Advantage: Lessons from Austria's Post-war Pattern of Growth for Eastern Europe

Marin, Dalia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper looks at Austria's pattern of development and its lessons for Eastern Europe. Austria's development path is characterized by three features. In the post-war era Austria was among the countries with the fastest convergence rate. At the same time Austria's movement up the technological...

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Specialization Patterns and the Factor Bias of Technology

Cuñat, Alejandro; Maffezzoli, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Development accounting exercises based on an aggregate production function find technology is biased in favour of a country's abundant production factors. We provide an explanation to this finding based on the Heckscher-Ohlin model. Countries trade and specialize in the industries that use...

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The Changing International Transmission of Financial Shocks: Evidence from a Classical Time-Varying FAVAR

Eickmeier, Sandra; Lemke, Wolfgang; Marcellino, Massimiliano - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We study the changing international transmission of US financial shocks over the period 1971-2009. Financial shocks are defined as unexpected changes of a financial conditions index (FCI), recently developed by Hatzius et al. (2010), for the US. We use a time-varying factor-augmented VAR to...

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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors

Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...

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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy

Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes at the level of a sector in a given U.S. state to...

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Scared by Foreigners and their Products? Survey Evidence from France

Cadot, Olivier; Geoffard, Pierre-Yves; Suwa Eisenmann, Akiko - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

The paper studies attitudes toward immigration and trade using an opinion survey of two thousand French individuals. We find that, beyond usual Stolper-Samuelson effects (skilled individuals are more pro-free trade than others, as in other countries) attitudes toward trade and immigration are...

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