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Catching Up or Pulling Away: Intra-Industry Trade, Productivity Gaps and Heterogeneous Firms

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  • Rod Falvey
  • David Greenaway
  • Zhihong Yu

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  • Rod Falvey & David Greenaway & Zhihong Yu, 2011. "Catching Up or Pulling Away: Intra-Industry Trade, Productivity Gaps and Heterogeneous Firms," Open Economies Review, Springer, vol. 22(1), pages 17-38, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:openec:v:22:y:2011:i:1:p:17-38
    DOI: 10.1007/s11079-010-9172-2
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    8. Rutzer, Christian, 2014. "From the Loser to the Winner - How Trade Liberalization can lead to Leapfrogging between Countries," VfS Annual Conference 2014 (Hamburg): Evidence-based Economic Policy 100313, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
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    Keywords

    Firm heterogeneity; Productivity gap; Technological asymmetry; F12; L11;
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    JEL classification:

    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • L11 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms

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