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This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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Chinese government in international negotiations. Thus, at least in the trade sphere, the rise of China as a consumer market …
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realized. The studies summarized in this paper generally confirm the positive impact of trade liberalization on productivity or … the spectrum of measures reflecting productivity, such as product quality, firm size, or skill intensity. The positive …
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We provide an overview and synthesis of recent work on models of monopolistic competition with heterogeneous firms in international trade, paying particular attention to competition effects, pass-through, selection effects, and linking distributions of firm characteristics and outcomes. A...
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-ups. Counterfactual analysis indicates that entry upstream benefits high-productivity buyers, while lower matching or trade costs benefit … all buyers, with the biggest boost to mid-productivity buyers. All three shocks generate sizeable welfare gains …
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openness and tame the aggregate productivity gains from trade. We empirically test these predictions analyzing the response of …, lower markups, and substantial increases in productivity for private firms but not for SOEs. Domestic barriers to entry and … the overall productivity gains would have been about 66% larger in a counterfactual Vietnamese economy without SOEs. …
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We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying theme of our survey is methodological. We rely on gravity models and demonstrate how they can be used for counterfactual analysis. We highlight how various economic...
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Globalization disrupted the seemingly solid construction emerged in the aftermath of WW II, called the international trade system. For over fifty years, the system grew constantly thanks to the increasing number of countries that joint it as well as to its ubiquitously-accepted rules. For better...
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In this paper we document Canada's trade policy response to late-nineteenth- and earlytwentieth-century globalization. We link newly digitized annual product-specific data on the value of Canadian imports and duties paid from 1870-1913 to establishment-specific production and location...
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