56 research outputs found
Replication data for: Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry
No full textCosar, A. Kerem, Grieco, Paul L. E., and Tintelnot, Felix, (2015) "Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry." Review of Economics and Statistics 97:3, 610-622
Replication data for: Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry
No full textCosar, A. Kerem, Grieco, Paul L. E., and Tintelnot, Felix, (2015) "Borders, Geography, and Oligopoly: Evidence from the Wind Turbine Industry." Review of Economics and Statistics 97:3, 610-622
Replication data for: Exporting, Global Sourcing, and Multinational Activity: Theory and Evidence from the United States
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Hans Tintelnot we Wrocławiu
No full textHans Tintelnot came to Breslau/Wrocław with his master, Dagobert Frey, professor in Vienna. Tintelnot studied 1931-1936 history of art and since 1935 was Frey’s assistant in History of Art Institute at the university here. His dissertation on Baroque theatre scenery was published 1939. The thesis of the excellent book based on discussion about the “German“ character of the art in the past times and its superiority over the Romance art, furthermore represented a strong nationalistic point of view. Tintelnot was integrated into the programme of Eastern studies at the Breslau university which was led among others by his master. In this context Tintelnot prepared his habilitation, which was published only after the World War II (1951). This book contained the results of his studies on middle-aged Silesian architecture in comparison to buildings in the nearby countries and used the methods of tribe studies (Stammesforschung). On one side Tintelnot’s habilitation revalues the almost unknown village churches, on the other side in his opinion it proves the superiority of Silesian art over the Slavonic countries, most of all Bohemia, Moravia and Lesser Poland. This book and other papers written 1939-1945 reveal political opinions of the author who worked actively with the Nazi party. After the World War II Tintelnot, then already a professor at the universities in Göttingen and Kiel, returned to the Baroque topics, seemingly forgetting about his achievements in Breslau
Replication Data for: 'The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States'
No full textThe data and programs replicate tables and figures from "The Effects of Foreign Multinationals on Workers and Firms in the United States", by Setzler and Tintelnot. Please see the README file for additional details
Replication package for Endogenous Production Networks with Fixed Costs
No full textReplication files for "Endogenous Production Networks with Fixed Costs" by Emmanuel Dhyne, Ken Kikkawa, Xianglong Kong, Magne Mogstad, Felix TintelnotTHIS DATASET IS ARCHIVED AT DANS/EASY, BUT NOT ACCESSIBLE HERE. TO VIEW A LIST OF FILES AND ACCESS THE FILES IN THIS DATASET CLICK ON THE DOI-LINK ABOV
Global production with export platforms
No full textMost international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates for the majority of their foreign sales. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production decisions and the welfare implications of multinational production. The few existing quantitative general equilibrium models that incorporate multinational firms achieve tractability by assuming away export platforms - i.e. they do not allow foreign affiliates of multinationals to export - or by ignoring fixed costs associated with foreign investment. I develop a quantifiable multi-country general equilibrium model, which tractably handles multinational firms that engage in export platform sales and that face fixed costs of foreign investment. I first estimate the model using German firm-level data to uncover the size and nature of costs of multinational enterprise and show that fixed costs of foreign investment are large. Second, I calibrate the model to data on trade and multinational production for twelve European and North American countries. Counterfactual results reveal that multinationals play an important role in transmitting technological improvements to foreign countries as they can jump the barriers to international trade; I find that a twenty percent increase in the productivity of US firms leads to welfare gains in foreign countries an order of magnitude larger than in a world in which multinational production is disallowed. I demonstrate the usefulness of the model for current policy analysis by studying the pending Canada-EU trade and investment agreement; I find that a twenty percent drop in the barriers to foreign production between the signatories would divert about seven percent of the production of EU multinationals from the US to Canada
The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from US Firms
No full text We develop a quantifiable multi-country sourcing model in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables. In contrast to canonical export models where firm profits are additively separable across destination markets, global sourcing decisions naturally interact through the firm's cost function. We show that, under an empirically relevant condition, selection into importing exhibits complementarities across source markets. We exploit these complementarities to solve the firm's problem and estimate the model. Comparing counterfactual predictions to reduced-form evidence highlights the importance of interdependencies in firms' sourcing decisions across markets, which generate heterogeneous domestic sourcing responses to trade shocks. (JEL D24, F14, F23, L14, L21) </jats:p
The Margins of Global Sourcing: Theory and Evidence from U
No full textAbstract This paper studies the extensive and intensive margins of firms' global sourcing decisions. First, it presents three new facts on U.S. firms' import behavior that highlight the importance of the extensive margin in explaining cross-sectional variation in U.S. import volumes. These facts motivate the development of a quantifiable multi-country global sourcing model with heterogeneous firms, in which firms self-select into importing based on their productivity and country-specific variables (wages, trade costs, and technology). The model delivers a simple closed-form solution for firm profits as a function of the number and characteristics of the set of countries from which a firm has invested in being able to import. A key feature of this derived profit function is that the marginal increase in profits from adding a country to the firm's set of potential sourcing locations depends on the number and characteristics of other countries in the set. This makes the analysis of the extensive margin of sourcing more complicated than in models of exporting, where entry is typically assumed to be independent across markets. Under plausible parametric restrictions, however, selection into importing features complementarity across markets. In this case, we can use standard monotone comparative statics techniques to show that the sourcing strategies of firms follow a strict hierarchical structure, as in exporting models. In our empirical implementation of the model, we also exploit these complementarities to develop an algorithm, similar t
Exporting and the Environment: A New Look with Micro-Data
No full textPrevious aggregate studies ignore additional environmental improvements caused by intra industry reallocations to high productivity/ low pollution firms. They also fail to consider potential differences in abatement efforts by exporting status. Our estimation based on UK firm level data from 1998 to 2002 shows that exporters are 7.5 percent more likely to denote their innovation as having a ‘high’ or ‘very high’ environmental effect. Our findings also show that exporters are 17.5 percent more likely, all things equal, to report that their firm’s innovation cuts the cost of energy/ materials. Our results agree with our environment trade model which predicts that exporters amortize the fixed cost of environmental abatement over their wider output baseExporting, environment, innovation, heterogeneity
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