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Country Size, Trade, and Productivity: An Analysis of Heterogenous Firms and Differential Beachhead Costs

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Akerman, Anders () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)
Forslid, Rikard () (Dept. of Economics, Stockholm University)

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This paper modifies the heterogenous firms and trade model by Melitz (2003) by explicitly modelling the beachhead cost of a firm in a new market as a function of market size. This leads to several new predictions compared to the standard model. In particular, the productivity of non exporters and exporters depends on market size. Moreover, manufacturing export shares vary inversely with market size. However, export shares converge (upwards) as markets are integrated. The empirical part of the paper offers support for our model specification.

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Paper provided by Stockholm University, Department of Economics in its series Research Papers in Economics with number 2007:14.

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Date of creation: 30 Jul 2007
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Handle: RePEc:hhs:sunrpe:2007_0014

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Keywords: Heterogenous Firms; Market Size; Beachhead Costs;

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H32 - Public Economics - - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents - - - Firm
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