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Firm heterogeneity and firm behavior with conditional policies

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  • Demidova, Svetlana
  • Krishna, Kala

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This paper shows that the result of Ju and Krishna (2002, 2005), i.e., the non-monotonicity in the comparative statics across regimes, disappears, if exporters differ in their productivities, which provides very different predictions about the results of policy changes.
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  • Demidova, Svetlana & Krishna, Kala, 2008. "Firm heterogeneity and firm behavior with conditional policies," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 98(2), pages 122-128, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:98:y:2008:i:2:p:122-128
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