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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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Dissertation

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affects regional productivity using county-level data from Korea and firm-level data from India
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 costs and business dynamics in U.S. regions and industries

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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