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economy has become highly integrated, and foreign outsourcing has become a standard practice for firms. While trade theory …
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We derive a theory-based gravity-type equation that determines the main drivers of international technology diffusion under perfect enforcement of intellectual property rights. We estimate the gravity equation using bilateral royalty payments data for a sample of 53 countries and the period...
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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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&D externality implying a decrease of the social welfare. Opening markets to the international trade leads to more investment in R …
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The paper examines the formation of free trade agreements (FTAs) as a network formation game. We consider a general n …-country model in which countries trade differentiated industrial commodities as well as a numeraire good. Countries may be different … all countries are symmetric, a complete global free trade network is pairwise stable and it is the unique stable network …
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We provide a unified framework for quantifying the cross country and cross-sector interactions among trade, innovation …, and knowledge diffusion. We study the effect of trade liberalization in a multi-country, multi-sector endogenous growth … trade costs induces a re-allocation of comparative advantage in production and innovation across sectors, which translates …
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We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries' market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
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We construct a strategic trade model of an international duopoly, whereby production by exporting firms generates a …
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In this paper we examine an alternative policy scenario, where governments allow polluting firms to trade permits in a …
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This paper analyses the impact of unilateral climate policy on firms’ international location strategies in emission-intensive sectors, when countries differ in terms of market size. The cases of partial and total relocation via foreign direct investment are separately considered. A simple...
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