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Economies of Scale and the Size of Exporters

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  • Miklos Koren

    (Central European University)

  • Roc Armenter

    (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia)

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reallocation are halved.

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  • Miklos Koren & Roc Armenter, 2009. "Economies of Scale and the Size of Exporters," 2009 Meeting Papers 1269, Society for Economic Dynamics.
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