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World trade patterns and prices: The role of productivity and quality heterogeneity

Benedetti Fasil, Cristiana; Borota, Teodora - 2010

This paper analyzes the role of product quality and labor efficiency in shaping the trade patterns and trade intensities within and across two groups of countries, the developed and richer North and the developing South. Taking prices as a proxy for quality, recent empirical literature...

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Revisiting Domestic Support to Agriculture at the WTO : Ensuring a Level Playing Field

Sharma, Sachin Kumar - 2020

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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches

Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2008

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China …. Still, China's integration process so far remains characterized by a certain duality. On the one hand the opening up of …

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Income differences and prices of tradables

Simonovska, Ina - 2010

productivity heterogeneity. The model brings theory and data closer along a key dimension: it generates positively related prices …

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Heterogeneous Firms and International Trade: The role of productivity and financial fragility

Assenza, Tiziana; Delli Gatti, Domenico; Grazzini, Jakob; … - 2016

In his seminal paper, starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) nicely … accounts for the stylized fact that the level of individual productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to … depends on both productivity and net worth, and both are heterogeneous across firms. We show that firms with low productivity …

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Trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers to Indo-Pak trade

Taneja, Nisha - 2007

This paper aims to identify the bilateral trade possibilities and non-tariff barriers between India and Pakistan. The study shows that there is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to...

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Concentration in international markets: Evidence from US imports

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino … - 2019

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and country of origin. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firm has grown, and the...

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Trade policy, income risk, and welfare

Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William - 2004

This paper studies empirically the relationship between trade policy and individual income risk faced by workers. The analysis proceeds in three steps. First, longitudinal data on workers are used to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in various manufacturing sectors. The...

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Market structure and market access

Francois, Joseph F.; Wooton, Ian - 2007

We examine an issue at the nexus of domestic competition policy and international trade, the interaction between goods trade and market power in domestic trade and distribution sectors. Theory suggests a set of linkages between service-sector competition and goods trade supported by econometrics...

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Export costs and geographic diversification: Does experience matter?

Castagnino, Tomás - 2010

What drives firms' geographic diversification in international markets? I build a model to show that if some export costs are sunk and shared between alike destinations, the decision of a firm to enter a market is a function of its experience in a similar one. Using a rich firm-level dataset for...

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