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  1. Cross-industry heterogeneity in export participation
    the role of scale economies in R&D
    Author: Ferguson, Shon
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Research Inst. of Industrial Economics, Stockholm

    This paper shows that the R&D intensity of an industry plays an important role in determining international trade patterns via its effect on scale economies. I first develop a model of trade with heterogeneous …firms where …firms compete with each... more

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    ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Standort Kiel
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    DS 206 (930)
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    This paper shows that the R&D intensity of an industry plays an important role in determining international trade patterns via its effect on scale economies. I first develop a model of trade with heterogeneous …firms where …firms compete with each other by spending on …fixed product development costs such as R&D. The model predicts that a larger share of …firms are exporters in industries where R&D is a large component of total costs. The model also predicts that R&D-intense industries are less sensitive to trade costs. I …find empirical support for these predictions using fi…rm-level data for Swedish manufacturing industries. The results also highlight the importance of controlling for …firm size when measuring the …firm extensive margin of exports. -- International Trade ; Trade Costs ; Endogenous Sunk Costs

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Online
    Other identifier:
    hdl: 10419/81347
    Series: IFN working paper ; 930
    Subjects: international trade; trade costs; endogenous sunk costs
    Scope: Online-Ressource (PDF-Datei: 31 S., 346 KB), graph. Darst.
  2. B2C ecommerce strategy and market structure
    the survey based approach
    Author: Schmitz, Stefan W.; Sint, Peter Paul
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  DIW, Berlin

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