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Chevassus-Lozza, Emmanuelle; Latouche, Karine. |
This article offers a new reading of intra-European trade based on recent developments in new international economics (Melitz, 2003; Chaney, 2008). These models take the heterogeneity of firms into account and offer a micro-economic analysis of the process of selection at work for firms entering markets. An exporting firm has to bear certain specific costs to break into a market, and only sufficiently productive firms are able to do so. Using individual data for French agro-food firms and the distribution of their exports across European markets, this article shows that access conditions to the various European markets are not identical for French firms: the Belgian market would seem to be a natural extension of the French market, whereas the markets of... |
Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Firm heterogeneity; Trade costs; European Integration.; International Relations/Trade. |
Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/44123 |
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