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Cross-industry heterogeneity in export participation : the role of scale economies in R&D
Ferguson, Shon - 2012
This paper shows that the R&D intensity of an industry plays an important role in determining international trade patterns via its effect on scale economies. I first develop a model of trade with heterogeneous firms where firms compete with each other by spending on fixed product development...
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The fickle fringe and the stable core : exporters' product mix across markets
Fontagné, Lionel; Secchi, Angelo; Tomasi, Chiara - 2016 - This version - May 4, 2016
concentration. …
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Financial development and export concentration
Unger, Florian - 2023
This paper analyzes the impact of financial development on export concentration. I incorporate credit constraints into … production costs instead of investments suggests a negative impact of financial development on export concentration as smaller … support for the predictions of the investment model that higher financial development increases export concentration among top …
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The extensive margin of exporting products : a firm-level analysis
Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2010
We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...
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Markups from inventory data and export intensity
Borota Milicevic, Teodora; Carlsson, Mikael - 2016
In this paper we propose a novel method for the price-cost markup estimation and study the relationship between export intensity and the markup. We impose much less restrictive identifying assumptions on technology and adjustment frictions compared to previous studies and use Swedish firm-level...
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Trade, labor share, and productivity in India's industries
Maiti, Dibyendu - 2019
This paper explores whether trade can explain a part of the sharp decline in the labor share of Indian formal industries from around 30% in 1980 to less than 10% in 2014. Decline in strikes and lockouts, reduced labor time lost from disputes per factory and increased use of contract workers in...
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Markups of exporters and importers : evidence from Hungary
Hornok, Cecilia; Muraközy, Balázs - 2018
This paper studies the relationship between firm-level markups and trade status using balance sheet information linked to detailed trade data from Hungary between 1995-2003. We find that importing is strongly positively correlated with markups both across and within firms. We argue that this...
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The distribution of firm size in India : what can survey data tell us?
Hasan, Rana; Jandoc, Karl Robert L. - 2010
We use establishment-level data from Indian manufacturing to describe the distribution of firm size in terms of employment, and discuss implications for public policy. A unique feature of our analysis is the use of nationally representative establishment-level data from both the registered...
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Reforms, entry and productivity : some evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor);  … - 2006
It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable. Traditional research in the context of entry has explored...
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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022
The expansion of enterprise level datasets has led to the emergence of a large body of literature on patterns of employment and job dynamics across different enterprise types. In the context of India, where MSMEs have been traditionally supported and encouraged by different policy initiatives to...
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