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Determinants of trade margins : insights using state export data

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2015

We adapt the heterogeneous firm trade models of Helpman, Melitz, and Rubinstein (2008) and Lawless (2010) to analyze extensive and intensive trade margins using state-level exports to foreign nations. Our theoretical analysis provides definitive predictions for the effects of changes in fixed...

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Decomposing the exporter wage gap : selection or differential returns?

Bødker, Jonas Ehn; Maibom Pedersen, Jonas; Vejlin, … - 2018

, little is known about the sources behind the gap: Is it because more productive (and/or higher paying) firms export, because … more productive workers select into the export sector, or is it because matches in the export sector are more productive … returns and thereby the exporter wage gap becomes a result of workers selecting into the export or non-export sector based on …

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Ethnic networks and US exports

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu (contributor); … - 2006

This paper provides new estimates of the effects of ethnic network on U.S. exports. In line with recent research, our dataset is a panel of exports from U.S. states to 29 foreign countries. Our analysis departs from the literature in two ways, both of which show that previous estimates of the...

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