In this paper we directly test the proposed productivity hierarchy of direct, indirect
and non-exporters using firm-level data from 105 developing and transition countries. Using both regression analysis and propensity ...
Leahy, Dermot(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1994-03)
The import protection as export promotion thesis is examined from a positive and normative perspective in a series of two-stage games in which firms choose R&D and capacity in the first stage and quantity or price in the ...
The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non-exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such as Melitz (2003), where more productive firms are more likely ...
The empirical finding that exporting firms are more productive on average than non-exporters has provoked a large theoretical literature based on models such as Melitz (2003), where more productive firms are more likely ...
Neary, J. Peter(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1990-12-28)
This paper examines the optimality of export subsidies in oligopolistic markets, when home and foreign firms have different costs and there is an opportunity cost to public funds. Subsidies are found to be optimal only for ...
Leahy, Dermot(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-05)
A series of two-period, three-stage games with learning by doing is developed. In the first stage firms choose first-period outputs. Then governments choose export subsidies. Finally firms choose second-period outputs. I ...
Bredin, Donal; Cotter, John(University College Dublin. School of Business. Centre for Financial Markets, 2004-10-12)
We analyse the impact of volatility per se on exports for a a small open economy concentrating on Irish trade with the UK and the US. An important element is that we take account of the time lag between
the trade decision ...
One of the most famous and robust findings in international economics is that distance
has a strong negative effect on trade. Bernard, Jensen, Redding, and Schott (2007)
discuss how this can be decomposed into an effect ...
One of the most famous and robust findings in international economics is that distance
has a strong negative effect on trade. Bernard, Jensen, Redding, and Schott (2007)
discuss how this can be decomposed into an effect ...
Leahy, Dermot(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-03)
This paper reexamines the import protection as export promotion thesis in a series of two-stage games in which firms choose R&D and/or capacity in the first stage and quantity or price in the second. It is shown that a ...