Understanding superstar firms' phenomenon

J Behera, R Sharma - Competitiveness Review: An International …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose The current worldwide business landscape with large firms, asymmetric market
shares and reduced competition has heralded academic and journalistic scholarship to …

Theories of market selection

L Fontanelli - Journal of Economic Surveys, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a survey of the main mechanisms of market selection used in economics. We
categorize existing theories into three broad classes—evolutionary selection, reduced form …

The effects of heterogeneous sanctions on exporting firms: Evidence from Denmark

IC Jäkel, S Østervig, E Yalcin - Review of International …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sanctions encompass a wide set of policy instruments restricting cross‐border economic
activities. In this paper, we study how different types of sanctions affect the export behavior of …

The rise of superstar firms in the United States: The role of global sourcing

Y Li, Z Miao - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent trends of global sourcing, market concentration, and aggregate markup have
garnered increased attention. This paper examines the impact of global sourcing of inputs …

The Uncharted Waters of International Trade

P Antràs - Journal of the European Economic Association, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The field of international trade has undergone significant theoretical and empirical
advancements over the last twenty-five years. A key breakthrough has been the emergence …

Waves or ripples: African countries risk shocks and the survival of Chinese exports to Africa

X Ye, M Lai, H Xiao, D Zhou - China Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines the impact of risk shocks in Africa on the stability of Chinese firms'
export relationships by analyzing risk fluctuations and using survival analysis to measure …

The digital economy and markup: Based on herd behavior and peer effect

X Zhang, D Chen, Y Li - The Journal of International Trade & …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The relationship between digital economy and signal information on firms 'markup has been
overlooked and not well explained, especially in the emerging economies. When there is …

Bureaucratic transfers and industrial structure changes in China: The role of superstar firms

L Cheng, Q Liu - Cities, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines how local industrial structure changes after bureaucratic transfers
across Chinese cities. Utilizing firm-level data within the manufacturing sector, we show a …

The dynamics of global sourcing

TT Hoang - International Finance Discussion Paper, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies an import model that incorporates both static crosscountry
interdependence and dynamic dependence in firm-level decisions. I find that the benefit of …

Stable outcomes and information in games: An empirical framework

PS Koh - Journal of Econometrics, 2023 - Elsevier
Empirically, many strategic settings are characterized by stable outcomes in which players'
decisions are publicly observed, yet no player takes the opportunity to deviate. To analyze …