The impact of windfalls: firm selection, trade and welfare
We ask how a small open economy with heterogeneous firms responds to a resource windfall. A resource windfall boosts demand but also affects wages such that production costs increase. The result is a higher number of firms and renewed selection among firms: New firms at the lower end of the producti...
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University of Oxford
2015
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