Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30211 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 144
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro-competitive effects of import penetration on the domestic industry disappear in the long run. The predictions for the short run are confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry.
Subjects: 
International trade
firm heterogeneity
productivity
clothing industry
JEL: 
F12
F15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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