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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Firm Heterogeneity"”.
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Firm heterogeneity in international trade
… trade affects us all. It expands markets for firms to thrive and increases varieties to satisfy consumers. From waking up with a coffee grown on Brazilian trees to closing a light manufactured in China at night, our daily routines are riddled with products that can be provided by firms located …
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Topics on firm heterogeneity and economic policy
… presents a series of works exploring individual firm behavior and how that affects the macroeconomics data. Chapter one explores the trends in competition, markups and market shares in a general equilibrium model. Over the last 30 years markups, as well as advertising expenses, have increased …
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Firm heterogeneity and political economy of international trade
… of international trade, with an emphasis on firm-level heterogeneity. The first chapter is an empirical study of the new trade theories in which firm heterogeneity and trade costs play central roles in shaping the patterns of international trade. It examines the empirical basis for the …
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Exporting, foreign direct investment and firm heterogeneity in Thailand
… exporting, foreign direct investment (FDI) and firm heterogeneity in Thailand using a firm-level data from the Annual Survey of Thailand’s manufacturing industry between 2001 and 2004. We first examine the factors affecting the export participation decision of a firm by emphasising the …
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Essays in international trade, political economy of protection and firm heterogeneity
… capital-labor ratio observed for exporting firms is a higher capital intensity of their production technology. Exporters are more productive, more likely to survive and, hence, more likely to repay loans. A higher repayment probability causes creditors to charge lower interest rate and …
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Modeling, Empirics and Policy Implications of Firm Heterogeneity in International Trade
… have significant limitations in explaining the firm-level information prevalent in the recent international trade literature. The pioneering work of Melitz (2003) has provided a firm heterogeneity theory that can help address the shortcomings of Armington-based CGE models by introducing …
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Essays on Firm Heterogeneity and Export: Productivity, Quality and Access to Finance
The thesis investigates the relationship between firm heterogeneity and international trade from the perspective of a developing country. The standard heterogeneous firm trade models (Melitz, 2003; Bernard et. al, 2003) have largely focused on differences among firms in terms of an exogenously …
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Three essays in international trade
… in international trade. Chapter 1 explains how firm heterogeneity and market structure can distort the geography of international trade. By considering only the intensive margin of trade, Krugman (1980) predicts that a higher elasticity of substitution between goods magnifies the impact of trade …
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Impact of Human Capital on Global Value Chains in Asia and Southeast Asian Region
… of human capital development on the domestic firm participation in global value chains, (b) impact of human capital development and the impact of SME participation in the GVC, and (c) the effects of servicification and impact on productivity of the firms. The first empirical approach adopted …
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Empirical essays on economic globalization with heterogeneous producers
… Investment (FDI) on the survival and growth of firms, aggregate productivity, and economic development. Inspired by recent advances in international trade emphasizing the role of firm heterogeneity, this dissertation exploits rich sources of micro-level data and rigorously examines the impacts …
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Financial constraints and firms’ activities in China
… the effects of financial constraints and firms’ activities is an important issue from both macroeconomics and microeconomics perspectives. The recent development of the asymmetric information approach has established a link between finance and the real activity. A good understanding of the …
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Essays in Macroeconomics and Heterogeneity
… The first two chapters focus on the effects of firm heterogeneity and firm dynamics on macroeconomic outcomes, particularly how the transmission of macroeconomic shocks is impacted by strategic behaviour and the distribution of financially constrained firms. The last two chapters address the …
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Essays on the dynamics of qualitative aspects of firms' behavior
… and empirically qualitative aspects of firms' behavior in dynamic settings. CHAPTER 1. ENDOGENOUS ATTRITION OF FIRMS: An Investigation with COMPUSTAT Data Chapter One develops a dynamic programming model of firms' attrition and investigates econometric aspects of firms' exit decisions. …
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Development of global inter-country inter-industry system for various policy perspectives
… regional dimension (Chapter 3) and the role of firm heterogeneity on trade intensity (Chapter 4). The subsequent chapters of this dissertation detail the methodology for the compilation techniques used to develop the various types of international input-output (IIO) models to analyze the …
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Firm growth and worker turnover in frictional labour markets
This dissertation contributes to the analysis of firm heterogeneity, turnover, and worker reallocation in frictional labour markets. Chapter 1 presents empirical evidence using German longitudinal matched employer-employee data on the relationship between worker flows and employer characteristics. …
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Firm-size and wages: a case study of the manufacturing sector in Zimbabwe
… the mainstream literature that workers in large firms earn higher wages than those in smaller firms. This phenomenon is recognised as an important puzzle that explains wage disparities in labour markets. This thesis analyses the link between firm size and wages in the Zimbabwean manufacturing …
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The Internationalization of Emerging Economy Firms: The Impact of Corporate Governance and Political Connections
… on the internationalization of emerging economy firms. I examine the influence of the firms corporate governance and political connections on the firms internationalization behavior, as these factors reflect the special institutional environment of emerging economies. In the first chapter I …
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Essays on Consumer Bankruptcy, Employment, Firm Dynamics, and Aging in the United States
… trends in consumer bankruptcy, employment, firm dynamics, and aging in the U.S. economy. The first chapter shows that improved matching between borrowers and lenders quantitatively explains the rise in unsecured credit and consumer bankruptcies in the United States. The model is calibrated …
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Essays on the Economics of Mergers and Acquisitions
… effects of M&A on plants' performance, taking firm heterogeneity into account. Since there is no typical merger (Tichy, 2001) it distinguishes between acquiring and target plants, and between horizontal and non-horizontal mergers. The thesis focuses on two major research questions: do plants …
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Hiring, recessions, and careers : three essays in personnel economics
… opportunities either within their current firm or in other firms in the market. In this thesis, I investigate how variation in the labor market affects this career building process. In the first chapter, I find that career opportunities are scarce for young workers during recessions, and …
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