The Book Publishing Industry focuses on consumer books (adult, juvenile, and mass market paperbacks) and reviews all major book categories to present a comprehensive overview of …
R Kosova - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
I examine how foreign presence affects the growth and survival of domestic firms. Separating a negative crowding out and positive technology spillovers, I analyze whether …
In this paper, we build a dynamic model with endogenous firm-level productivity that involves ex ante identical firms behaving differently in equilibrium. Heterogeneity arises in …
C Mudenda, I Choga, C Chigamba - Mediterranean Journal of …, 2014 - researchgate.net
The paper examined “the role of export diversification on economic growth in South Africa”. The study used annual time series secondary data for the period covering 1980 to 2010 and …
The dynamics of export market exit and firm closure have found limited attention in the new heterogeneous-firms trade literature. In fact, several of the predictions on firm survival and …
A perennial case for industrial policy is based on the protection of young or emerging industries. Despite a natural association with concepts of life cycles, industrial policy has not …
AC Spearot - International Economic Review, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
This article presents a model of international trade in which heterogeneous firms can expand through capital acquisitions. I show that demand elasticities are a crucial element in …
P McCalman - Journal of International Economics, 2010 - Elsevier
When a foreign monopolist sets a single market clearing price for its product, the sign of the optimal tariff is determined by the extent of pass through (also known as the terms of trade …