variable and sunk costs between exporters and importers across different categories of imports. The authors use a rich and …

-traders. Secondly, they estimate the determinants of the extensive and intensive margins of exports and imports using dynamic panel … that both activities present a high degree of hysteresis, which is higher for imports than for exports pointing to the … existence of sunk costs in both activities. Moreover, past productivity does affect the extensive margin of imports, but not of …

import demand. Interestingly, we show that the crisis hit produced exports less than the carry-along ones and that the …

provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …

are related to credit constraints in one important dimension. In the case of exports, it is the intensive and extensive … margins of exports in terms of both product and destinations that are significantly associated with credit constraints whereas … for imports it is the extensive margin in terms of products only. …

Evaluating the importance of non-tariff measures (NTMs) affecting imports remains a major challenge. This study reports …

sectors and regions. In a first step, firm level data are used to assess the empirical relationship between exports and three …

, and Korean imports by a high and growing share of consumption goods. Third, the technological level of Korea's exports to … significantly over the past decade. Second, Korean exports have been characterized by a high and growing share of intermediate goods … Vietnam is much higher than that of Vietnam's exports to Korea. Fourth, Vietnam's exports are less diverse than Korea's. Fifth …