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  • Three essays on international trade and regional productivity

    Creator:
    Moon, Hanpil
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    A firm's productivity is composed of two parts: pure technical change and location-specific (agglomeration) externalities. Regional productivity is thus an aggregation of productivity of firms producing similar goods and located in a given region. International trade can affect both components of regional productivity. First, trade openness in a closed economy...
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    Productivity Abstract approved:____________________________________________________ Munisamy Gopinath

  • Multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior

    Creator:
    Choi, Jangho
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    The objective of this dissertation is to examine multi-product firms' productivity and export behavior. More specifically, this dissertation estimates productivity of firms that produce and sell multiple products, and the role of productivity in such firms' export behavior. In doing so, this dissertation develops a firm-level gravity approach to test...
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    Multi-Product Firms' Productivity and Export Behavior

  • Trade and productivity effects on firm behavior : the case of Korean manufacturing

    Creator:
    Kim, Sooil
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    This dissertation’s three essays investigate trade and productivity effects on firm behavior based on new heterogeneous-firms trade models in the case of Korea. In the first essay, firms’ decision to export in the case of Korean manufacturing industries is examined, where the change in firms’ productivity before and after exports...
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    presented on July 7, 2008. Title: Trade and Productivity Effects on Firm Behavior: The Case of Korean

  • Three essays on firm heterogeneity and regional development

    Creator:
    Saito, Hisamitsu
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    The objective of this dissertation is to theoretically and empirically examine the role of firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the effect of agglomeration on regional economic development. In the first essay, I analyze the effect of trade liberalization on agglomeration of high-...
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    firm heterogeneity in terms of productivity and skill-intensity in the agglomeration process and the

  • Trade costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

    Creator:
    Wu, Qian
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    Firms' participation in exporting or foreign direct investment is an extremely rare behavior: only 4 percent of over 5.5 million U.S. firms were exporters in 2000. Exporters are generally larger (e.g. output and employment) and more productive than firms serving only domestic markets. Such heterogeneity within a narrowly defined industry...
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    previously not recognized in trade literature: (i) exit of low productivity firms, and (ii) resource