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Exports and Success in German Manufacturing.

Bernard, A.; Wagner, J. - Economics Department, Massachusetts Institute of … - 1996

While Germany has a very open, export-oriented manufacturing sector, to date there has been little or no research on the role of exporting in German firm performance. This paper documents the significant differences between exporters and non-exporters and attemps to identify the sources of these...

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Import Restraints and Quality Choice under Vertical Differentiation.

Boccard, N.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

We consider the following stage game: a domestic government chooses an import quota, the a domestic and a foreign firm choose their quality level before engaging a price competition. We first show that the indirect effect of the quota on the sales of the domestic producer are different depending...

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European Antidumping Policy and Firms' Srategic Choice of Quality.

Vandenbussche, H.; Wauthy, X. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

In this paper, the authors consider a European industry characterized by vertical product differentiation. Using a two-stages model with quality choice made before price competition takes place, the authors show that EU antidumping policy that takes the form of price-undertaking offers a...

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Endogenous Mercantilism and Oligopoly Dumping.

McGuire, M.; Ohta, H. - California Irvine - School of Social Sciences - 2000

Although the world and its global economy become more and more integrated with each passing year, not all the correlated increase in trade could be unambiguously be called free trade. A significant share of world trade growth in the past generation has occured with state guided economies of...

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The Importance of Being Small: Size Effects in International Trade.

Tharakan, J.; Thisse, J.-F. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2000

Market size and transport costs are important ingredients of international trade. We propose a look at these issues from a different perpspective. Using a Hotelling duopoly model with quadratic transport costs, we analyze the welfare effects of international trade between two countries which...

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Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures.

Suzumura, K - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1997

This paper reflects on consequentialism which underlies the traditional normative economics. It asserts that the informational basis of normative economics should be expanded so that the intrinsic value of social choice procedures should be properly taken into account along with the value of...

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Consequences, Opportunities, and Procedures.

Suzumura, K - Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER), Osaka … - 1997

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Explaining the volume of North-South Trade in Ireland: a Gravity Model Approach.

Fitzsimons, E.; Hogan, V.; Neary, J.P. - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 1999

The authors address the question of whether the volume of manufacturing trade between Norther Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is more or less than might be expected in the light of international experience. They estimate a gravity equation for bilateral trade between 28 developed countries...

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Quality Signaling and International Trade in Food Products.

Bureau, J.-C.; Gozlan, E.; Marette, S. - Paris X - Nanterre, U.F.R. de Sc. Ec. Gest. Maths Infor. - 1999

Focusing on the issue of food safety, the authors consider a framework of repeated purchases where adverse selection from imperfect information on product quality exists. Countries are characterized by their unequal ability to control quality.

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An Account of Global Factor Trade.

Davis, D.R.; Weinstein, D.E. - Harvard Institute of Economic Research (HIER), … - 1998

A half-century of empirical work on the factor proportions theory has identified "paradoxes" and "mysteries", but has … failed to devise simple amendments that bring theory and data inot reasonable congruence. Our study considers standard and … by this data, suffice for a striking confirmation of the HOV theory. Countries export the services of abundant factors …

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