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Exports and Information Spillovers
Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A …
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How Trade Credits Foster International Trade
Eck, Katharina; Engemann, Martina; Schnitzer, Monika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
Internationally active firms rely intensively on trade credits even though they are considered particularly expensive. This phenomenon has been little explored so far. Our theoretical analysis shows that trade credits can alleviate financial constraints arising from asymmetric information...
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What Do We Really Know About Protection Before The Great Depression: Evidence From Italy
Federico, Giovanni; Vasta, Michelangelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
The impact of protection on economic growth is one of the traditional issues in economic history, which has enjoyed a revival in recent times, with the publication of a number of comparative quantitative papers. They all share a common weakness: they measure protection with the ratio of custom...
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Exchange Rate Pass-Through, Domestic Competition, and Inflation: Evidence from the 2005/08 Revaluation of the Renminbi
Auer, Raphael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
Import competition from China is pervasive in the sense that for many good categories, the competitive environment that … up to 519 manufacturing sectors, import price changes of Chinese goods pass into US producer prices at an average rate of … 0.7, while import price changes that can be traced back to exchange rate movements of other trade partners only have …
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Demand learning and firm dynamics: evidence from exporters
Berman, Nicolas; Rebeyrol, Vincent; Vicard, Vincent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper provides evidence that learning about demand is an important driver of firms' dynamics. We present a simple model with Bayesian learning in which firms are uncertain about their idiosyncratic demand parameter in each of the markets they serve, and update their beliefs as noisy...
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Globalization: A Woman’s Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap
Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention,little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to...
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Trade Liberalization and the Wage Skill Premium: Evidence from Indonesia
Amiti, Mary; Cameron, Lisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper, we analyze the effect of reducing import tariffs on intermediate inputs and final goods on the wage … reducing input tariffs reduces the wage skill premium within firms that import their intermediate inputs. However, we do not …
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Need for Speed: Is Faster Trade in the EU Trade-creating?
Hornok, Cecília - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Timeliness has gained growing importance in international trade. This paper provides empirical evidence on the significant cost of time in trade by exploiting the quasi-experimental nature of the European Union (EU) enlargement in 2004. It applies a difference-in-difference-in-differences...
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A Many-Country Model of Industrialization
Breinlich, Holger; Cuñat, Alejandro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We draw attention to the role of economic geography in explaining important cross-sectional facts which are difficult to account for in existing models of industrialization. By construction, closed-economy models that stress the role of local demand in generating sufficient expenditure on...
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Internal Geography and External Trade: regional disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
A'Hearn, Brian; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper explores the interactions between external trade and regional disparities in the Italian economy since unification. It argues that the advantage of the North was initially based on natural advantage (in particular the endowment of water, intensive in silk production). From 1880...
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