Generalized Separability and Integrability: Consumer Demand with a Price Aggregator
In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP17249
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP17249
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w25025
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In: Journal of international economics, Band 97, Heft 1, S. 76-85
ISSN: 0022-1996
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In: Journal of international economics, Band 114, S. 299-315
ISSN: 0022-1996
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In: CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP13092
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w24923
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w23101
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International supply chains require the coordination of numerous activities across multiple countries and firms. This paper develops a theoretical model of supply chains in which the measure of tasks completed within a firm is determined by parameters that define transaction costs and the cost of coordinating more activities within the firm. The structural parameters that govern these costs explain variation in supply chain length as well as cross-country variation in gross-output-to-value-added ratios. The structural parameters are linked to comparative advantage along and across supply chains. The paper provides an analytical treatment of trade and welfare responses to trade cost change in a simple two-country model. To explore the models implications in a richer setting, the model is calibrated to match key observables in East Asia, and the calibrated model is used to evaluate implications of changes in model parameters for trade, welfare, the length of supply chains, and countries relative position within them.
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In: Journal of international economics, Band 90, Heft 1, S. 123-135
ISSN: 0022-1996
In: Banque de France Working Paper No. 410
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In: NBER Working Paper No. w21520
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In: Discussion paper series 3237
Advanced market economies are characterized by a continuous process of creative destruction. Market forces and technological developments play a major role in shaping this process, but institutional and policy settings also influence firms' decision to enter, to expand if successful and to exit if competition becomes unbearable. In this paper, we focus on the effects of financial development on the entry of new firms and the expansion of successful new businesses. Drawing from harmonized firm-level data for 16 industrialized and emerging economies, we find that access to finance matters most for the entry of small firms and in sectors that are more dependent upon external finance. This finding is robust to controlling for other potential entry barriers (labor market regulations and entry regulations). On the other hand, financial development has either no effect or a negative effect on entry by large firms. Access to finance also helps new firms expand if successful. Both private credit and stock market capitalization are important for promoting entry and post entry growth of firms. Altogether, these results suggest that, despite significant progress over the past decade, many countries, including those in Continental Europe, should improve their financial markets so as to get the most out of creative destruction, by encouraging the entry of new (especially small) firms and the post-entry growth of successful young businesses. -- Financial development ; entry ; post-entry growth ; firm size ; micro data