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Trading away wide brands for cheap brands

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Firms face competing needs to expand product variety and reduce production costs. Trade policy affects firm investments in product variety and production processes differently. Access to larger markets enables innovation to reduce costs. Although firm scale increases, foreign competition reduces markups. Firms react by narrowing their product varieties to recapture these lost markups. I provide a theory detailing this conflicting impact of trade policy and address welfare gains from trade. Accounting for firm heterogeneity, I show support for the theoretical predictions with firm-level innovation data from Thailand’s manufacturing sector which experienced unilateral home tariff changes during 2003-2006.

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  • Dhingra, Swati, 2011. "Trading away wide brands for cheap brands," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 121770, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
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    Keywords

    brands; trade; manufacturing; heterogeneous firms; Thailand;
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    JEL classification:

    • F10 - International Economics - - Trade - - - General
    • F14 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Empirical Studies of Trade
    • M37 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Marketing and Advertising - - - Advertising
    • N80 - Economic History - - Micro-Business History - - - General, International, or Comparative

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