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Essays On Firms In International Trade, Aldo Sandoval Hernandez

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

My thesis is composed by three chapters that study the important role that firms play in mediating imports and exports between countries, and how their decisions and heterogeneity can influence the behavior of macroeconomic outcomes. The first chapter, explores the role of demand uncertainty and learning in explaining the low survival rates and sales of new exporters using a manufacturing survey for Colombian firms. In the second chapter, using a transaction-level dataset for Colombian exporters, I document novel facts about the post-entry dynamics of firm performance and prices in international markets, and study their connection with the transmission of exchange …

Essays In International Economics: The Trade-Creation Effect Of Migration, Miguel Cardoso

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My thesis consists of three chapters relating to topics in International Economics. My first two chapters study the effects of migration flows on the economic outcomes of stayers for both receiving and sending countries. In both these chapters I develop and calibrate two distinct general equilibrium (GE) models to study the quantitative effect of migration on the real income of workers. The third chapter empirically investigates the relationship between firm export behaviour and their composition of foreign-born workers.

In my first chapter I develop a multi-country GE model where consumers choose where to reside, facing a trade-off between potentially earning …

2004-1 Leakage And Comparative Advantage Implications Of Agricultural Participation In Greenhouse Gas Emission Mitigation, Heng-Chi Lee, Bruce A. Mccarl, Uwe A. Schneider, Chi-Chung Chen

Department of Economics Research Reports

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Income Inequality And International Migration, James B. Davies, Ian Wooton

Department of Economics Research Reports

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