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Global firms
Journal of Economic Literature, ISSN 0022-0515, 06/2018, Volume 56, Issue 2, pp. 565 - 619
Research in international trade has changed dramatically over the last twenty years, as attention has shifted from countries and industries towards the firms...
INTERMEDIATED TRADE | EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | MULTINATIONAL PRODUCTION | INTRAFIRM TRADE | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | MULTIPRODUCT FIRMS | PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION | ECONOMICS | AGGREGATE FLUCTUATIONS | PRICING-TO-MARKET | International trade | Economic models | Monopolistic competition | Exports
INTERMEDIATED TRADE | EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | MULTINATIONAL PRODUCTION | INTRAFIRM TRADE | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | MULTIPRODUCT FIRMS | PRODUCT DIFFERENTIATION | ECONOMICS | AGGREGATE FLUCTUATIONS | PRICING-TO-MARKET | International trade | Economic models | Monopolistic competition | Exports
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The Review of Economic Studies, ISSN 0034-6527, 4/2013, Volume 80, Issue 2 (283), pp. 711 - 744
Financial market imperfections severely restrict international trade flows because exporters require external capital. This article identifies and quantifies...
International trade | Trade | Credit | Trade finance | Importers | Finance | Financial development | Trade development | Exporters | Exports | Credit constraints | Heterogeneous firms | Product variety | Trade partners | QUALITY | F10 | G20 | MARKETS | G32 | F14 | F36 | G28 | CAPITAL FLOWS | DEPENDENCE | PATTERN | GROWTH | PRODUCTIVITY | COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE | ECONOMICS | VOLATILITY
International trade | Trade | Credit | Trade finance | Importers | Finance | Financial development | Trade development | Exporters | Exports | Credit constraints | Heterogeneous firms | Product variety | Trade partners | QUALITY | F10 | G20 | MARKETS | G32 | F14 | F36 | G28 | CAPITAL FLOWS | DEPENDENCE | PATTERN | GROWTH | PRODUCTIVITY | COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE | ECONOMICS | VOLATILITY
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Journal of International Economics, ISSN 0022-1996, 09/2015, Volume 97, Issue 1, pp. 100 - 111
Using confidential firm-level data from the United States in 2002, we show that exporting firms charge prices for narrowly defined goods that differ...
Firm level data | Heterogeneous firms | Exporters | Pricing | QUALITY | INDUSTRY | GRAVITY | COSTS | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | PANEL-DATA | PRODUCTIVITY | DYNAMICS | ECONOMICS | SPECIALIZATION | Exports
Firm level data | Heterogeneous firms | Exporters | Pricing | QUALITY | INDUSTRY | GRAVITY | COSTS | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | PANEL-DATA | PRODUCTIVITY | DYNAMICS | ECONOMICS | SPECIALIZATION | Exports
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Journal of International Economics, ISSN 0022-1996, 2012, Volume 86, Issue 1, pp. 43 - 56
This paper estimates a heterogeneous firms trade model using sector level data on export participation, trade flows, and unit value prices in a multi-country...
Product quality | Heterogeneous firms | Export prices | ECONOMICS | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE
Product quality | Heterogeneous firms | Export prices | ECONOMICS | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE
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American Economic Review, ISSN 0002-8282, 11/2018, Volume 108, Issue 11, pp. 3117 - 3153
To account for the uneven distribution of economic activity in space, I propose a theory of the location choices of heterogeneous firms in a variety of sectors...
LIFE-CYCLE | TRADE | CLUSTERS | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | PRODUCTIVITY | INEQUALITY | CITIES | ECONOMICS | SELECTION | EFFICIENCY | ECONOMY | Economic aspects | Metropolitan areas | Equilibrium (Economics) | Economic policy | Planning | Analysis | Economic activity | Economic models | Agglomeration | Cities
LIFE-CYCLE | TRADE | CLUSTERS | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | PRODUCTIVITY | INEQUALITY | CITIES | ECONOMICS | SELECTION | EFFICIENCY | ECONOMY | Economic aspects | Metropolitan areas | Equilibrium (Economics) | Economic policy | Planning | Analysis | Economic activity | Economic models | Agglomeration | Cities
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The American Economic Review, ISSN 0002-8282, 2/2011, Volume 101, Issue 1, pp. 304 - 340
This paper studies the impact of a regional free trade agreement, MERCOSUR, on technology upgrading by Argentinean firms. To guide empirical work, I introduce...
Productivity | Industrial market | Technological innovation | Industrial productivity | Tariffs | Trade liberalization | Innovation adoption | Exporters | Modeling | Exports | COUNTRIES | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | COLOMBIA | GLOBALIZATION | ECONOMICS | MODEL | PLANT-LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY | WAGE INEQUALITY | Studies | Economic models | Trade agreements | Technological change
Productivity | Industrial market | Technological innovation | Industrial productivity | Tariffs | Trade liberalization | Innovation adoption | Exporters | Modeling | Exports | COUNTRIES | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | COLOMBIA | GLOBALIZATION | ECONOMICS | MODEL | PLANT-LEVEL PRODUCTIVITY | WAGE INEQUALITY | Studies | Economic models | Trade agreements | Technological change
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The World Economy, ISSN 0378-5920, 11/2017, Volume 40, Issue 11, pp. 2328 - 2353
We study the impact of access to finance on exports using Chinese firm‐level data. We distinguish two modes of external finance, namely bank loans and issuing...
heterogeneous firms | financial constraints | China | exports | TRADE | ENTRY | BUSINESS, FINANCE | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | MODELS | PRODUCTIVITY | GROWTH | INVESTMENT | ECONOMICS | FLOWS | CREDIT CONSTRAINTS | Exports | Investigations | Loans | Economic models | Bank loans | Stocks | Banking | Companies | Stockholders | Behavior | Exports and imports | International finance
heterogeneous firms | financial constraints | China | exports | TRADE | ENTRY | BUSINESS, FINANCE | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | MODELS | PRODUCTIVITY | GROWTH | INVESTMENT | ECONOMICS | FLOWS | CREDIT CONSTRAINTS | Exports | Investigations | Loans | Economic models | Bank loans | Stocks | Banking | Companies | Stockholders | Behavior | Exports and imports | International finance
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, ISSN 0347-0520, 2013, Volume 115, Issue 2, pp. 292 - 325
Three types of theories have been used to explain the wage premium in foreign firms: the theories of heterogeneous workers, heterogeneous learning, and...
Heterogenität | Betriebliche Weiterbildung | Einkommenseffekt | Arbeitsproduktivität | Arbeitsbedingungen | Weiterbildungsangebot | Dänemark | Lohnhöhe | Einkommensunterschied | Multinationales Unternehmen | Beschäftigungsstruktur | Lohnfindung | Lohntheorie | learning | F16 | Heterogeneous firms | wage premium | F23 | heterogeneous workers | Learning | Wage premium | Heterogeneous workers | UNITED-STATES | WORKER MOBILITY | TRADE | DIRECT-INVESTMENT | MULTINATIONAL FIRMS | SIZE | EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA | MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS | ECONOMICS | TECHNOLOGY | Compensation and benefits | Employers | Wages | Analysis | Foreign corporations | Studies | Economics | Wages & salaries | Models
Heterogenität | Betriebliche Weiterbildung | Einkommenseffekt | Arbeitsproduktivität | Arbeitsbedingungen | Weiterbildungsangebot | Dänemark | Lohnhöhe | Einkommensunterschied | Multinationales Unternehmen | Beschäftigungsstruktur | Lohnfindung | Lohntheorie | learning | F16 | Heterogeneous firms | wage premium | F23 | heterogeneous workers | Learning | Wage premium | Heterogeneous workers | UNITED-STATES | WORKER MOBILITY | TRADE | DIRECT-INVESTMENT | MULTINATIONAL FIRMS | SIZE | EMPLOYER-EMPLOYEE DATA | MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS | ECONOMICS | TECHNOLOGY | Compensation and benefits | Employers | Wages | Analysis | Foreign corporations | Studies | Economics | Wages & salaries | Models
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The Economic Journal, ISSN 0013-0133, 02/2018, Volume 128, Issue 608, pp. 189 - 229
We study the welfare gains from trade in an economy with heterogeneous firms, variable markups and endogenous growth. Variable markups arise from oligopolistic...
WELFARE | IMPACT | COSTS | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT | PRODUCTIVITY | ECONOMICS | ECONOMIC-GROWTH | MODEL | REFORM | MARKET-STRUCTURE | Productivity | Economic models | Innovations
WELFARE | IMPACT | COSTS | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | RESEARCH-AND-DEVELOPMENT | PRODUCTIVITY | ECONOMICS | ECONOMIC-GROWTH | MODEL | REFORM | MARKET-STRUCTURE | Productivity | Economic models | Innovations
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Journal of International Economics, ISSN 0022-1996, 11/2017, Volume 109, pp. 116 - 137
We examine the global operations of multi-product firms. We present a flexible heterogeneous-firm trade model with either limited or strong scope for quality...
Product quality | Trade reforms | Multi-product firms | Trade | Export prices | DESTINATIONS | INEQUALITY | GLOBAL ECONOMY | AGGREGATE FLUCTUATIONS | INTERMEDIATE INPUTS | TRADE LIBERALIZATION | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | IMPORTED INPUTS | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | ECONOMICS
Product quality | Trade reforms | Multi-product firms | Trade | Export prices | DESTINATIONS | INEQUALITY | GLOBAL ECONOMY | AGGREGATE FLUCTUATIONS | INTERMEDIATE INPUTS | TRADE LIBERALIZATION | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | IMPORTED INPUTS | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | ECONOMICS
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Journal of International Economics, ISSN 0022-1996, 07/2013, Volume 90, Issue 2, pp. 391 - 402
We analyze the impact of input tariffs on the export status and export performance of heterogeneous processing firms. Using a theoretical model with downstream...
Input tariffs | Exports | Heterogeneous downstream firms | INTERMEDIATE INPUTS | IMPACT | INDUSTRY | PRODUCTIVITY | ECONOMICS | Analysis | Economics and Finance | Humanities and Social Sciences
Input tariffs | Exports | Heterogeneous downstream firms | INTERMEDIATE INPUTS | IMPACT | INDUSTRY | PRODUCTIVITY | ECONOMICS | Analysis | Economics and Finance | Humanities and Social Sciences
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Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, ISSN 0165-1889, 12/2015, Volume 61, pp. 61 - 80
Despite the microeconomic evidence supporting the superior idiosyncratic productivity of multinational firms (MNFs) and their affiliates, cross-country studies...
Entry | Heterogeneous firms | Growth | Technology transfer | Multinational production | TRADE | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | EXCHANGE-RATE | DYNAMICS | FDI | ECONOMICS | Microeconomics | Labor market | Foreign investments | International business enterprises | Analysis
Entry | Heterogeneous firms | Growth | Technology transfer | Multinational production | TRADE | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | EXCHANGE-RATE | DYNAMICS | FDI | ECONOMICS | Microeconomics | Labor market | Foreign investments | International business enterprises | Analysis
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Journal of International Economics, ISSN 0022-1996, 05/2016, Volume 100, pp. 120 - 137
The fragmentation of production across borders allows firms to make and export final goods, or to perform only intermediate stages of production by processing...
Global value chain | Credit constraints | Heterogeneous firms | China | Trade regime | Processing trade | F10 | F23 | F34 | F14 | F13 | INPUTS | PROPERTY-RIGHTS | DEPENDENCE | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | COLLAPSE | LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS | INVESTMENT | LINKAGES | ECONOMICS | OWNERSHIP | Exports | Financial markets | Global economy
Global value chain | Credit constraints | Heterogeneous firms | China | Trade regime | Processing trade | F10 | F23 | F34 | F14 | F13 | INPUTS | PROPERTY-RIGHTS | DEPENDENCE | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | COLLAPSE | LIQUIDITY CONSTRAINTS | INVESTMENT | LINKAGES | ECONOMICS | OWNERSHIP | Exports | Financial markets | Global economy
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Annual Review of Political Science, ISSN 1094-2939, 5/2019, Volume 22, Issue 1, pp. 399 - 417
We survey the literature on firms as primary actors in trade politics. In contrast with prevailing approaches, firm-centered models predict that trade...
political economy of trade | heterogeneous firms | corporate political activities | firm preferences | trade policy | PROTECTION | SUPPLY CHAINS | HETEROGENEITY | POLICY | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | COMPETITION | POLITICAL SCIENCE | LIBERALIZATION | DEMOCRACIES | ECONOMY | International trade | Influence | Political aspects | Analysis | Business enterprises | Globalization | Companies | Immigration | Economic research | Capital movements | Political institutions | Foreign investment | Capital | Political economy | Financial services
political economy of trade | heterogeneous firms | corporate political activities | firm preferences | trade policy | PROTECTION | SUPPLY CHAINS | HETEROGENEITY | POLICY | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | INTERNATIONAL-TRADE | COMPETITION | POLITICAL SCIENCE | LIBERALIZATION | DEMOCRACIES | ECONOMY | International trade | Influence | Political aspects | Analysis | Business enterprises | Globalization | Companies | Immigration | Economic research | Capital movements | Political institutions | Foreign investment | Capital | Political economy | Financial services
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Multiproduct firms, firm dynamics, and the productive mix of brazilian manufacturing firms
Estudos Economicos, ISSN 0101-4161, 07/2018, Volume 48, Issue 3, pp. 349 - 389
Abstract This paper studies the Brazilian manufacturing sector in line with the literature on heterogeneous firm. We focus i) on the characteristics of firms...
Scope | Heterogeneous firms | Intensive margin | Total factor productivity | Export | Extensive margin | Multiproduct
Scope | Heterogeneous firms | Intensive margin | Total factor productivity | Export | Extensive margin | Multiproduct
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The Scandinavian Journal of Economics, ISSN 0347-0520, 07/2019, Volume 121, Issue 3, pp. 1222 - 1243
When a region successfully attracts a firm by offering subsidies, the firm often commits itself to performance targets in terms of employment. In this paper,...
state aids | Business taxation | mechanism design | incomplete information | subsidy competition | SPILLOVERS | TRADE | FDI | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | PRODUCTIVITY | EQUILIBRIUM | TAXATION | ECONOMICS | TAX COMPETITION | INSURANCE MARKETS | Government aid | Analysis | Productivity | Business metrics | Tax credits | Corporate taxes | Employment | Government subsidies | Economics | competition (economics) | Economics and Business | tax system | Social Sciences | Ekonomi och näringsliv | subsidy system | employment | industrial performance | Samhällsvetenskap | state role | Nationalekonomi | productivity | design | wage
state aids | Business taxation | mechanism design | incomplete information | subsidy competition | SPILLOVERS | TRADE | FDI | FOREIGN DIRECT-INVESTMENT | HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS | PRODUCTIVITY | EQUILIBRIUM | TAXATION | ECONOMICS | TAX COMPETITION | INSURANCE MARKETS | Government aid | Analysis | Productivity | Business metrics | Tax credits | Corporate taxes | Employment | Government subsidies | Economics | competition (economics) | Economics and Business | tax system | Social Sciences | Ekonomi och näringsliv | subsidy system | employment | industrial performance | Samhällsvetenskap | state role | Nationalekonomi | productivity | design | wage
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