Comparative Advantage, Competition, and Firm Heterogeneity
19.02.2019 12:30 – 13:30
GENEVA TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP / Abstract
This paper examines how firm heterogeneity shapes comparative advantage. Drawing on matched customs and firm-level data from China, we find that export participation, exported product scope and product mix, and firm mix within industries vary systematically with firms' labour intensity. This is rationalized by a model in which firms from industries of comparative disadvantage face tougher competition in the export market. The competitive effect induces reallocation within and across firms and generates endogenous Ricardian comparative advantage, which dampens ex ante comparative advantage. Using sufficient statistics to measure and decompose comparative advantage, we find that the dampening mechanism is quantitatively important in shaping comparative advantage for a calibrated Chinese economy.
Lieu
Bâtiment: IHEID
Graduate Institute
Maison de la Paix
Petal 2, Room S4
2 Chemin Eugène-Rigot
1202 Geneva
Organisé par
Faculté d'économie et de managementInstitute of Economics and Econometrics
IHEID
Intervenant-e-s
Gianmarco OTTAVIANO, Professor of Economics at London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Università Bocconi, Milano, Italyentrée libre
Classement
Catégorie: Séminaire
Mots clés: International Trade, Multinationals, Economic Integration, immigration, Economic Geography
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