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provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s. …
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. The starting point is the traditional channel through exports and imports known as the "locomotive". The intertemporal …
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Foreign exchange windfalls such as those from natural resource revenues change non-resource exports, imports, and the … increase imports by 25 cents, implying a negligible effect on foreign saving. The negative per dollar impact on exports is … that the response to a dollar of resource revenue is, approximately, to decrease non-resource exports by 75 cents and …
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This paper provides concordance procedures for product-level trade and production data in the EU and examines the implications of changing product classifications on measured product adding and dropping at Belgian firms. Using the algorithms developed by Pierce and Schott (2012a,b), the paper...
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restrictions on exports of Japanese cars to Community markets are modeled as having an anti-competitive effect. The model is …
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This paper estimates the effect of the decision to import intermediate goods and capital equipment on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the firm level on a panel of Spanish firms covering the period between 1991 and 2002. We use two alternative approaches. In the first, we estimate TFP using...
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and the import behaviour of their employing firms. First, a model shows that the impact of firms’ imports on workers … employer-employee data source that contains information on firms’ inputs, including imports by type of product and by country …, firms own imports of the same goods ‘protect’ its workers through a hold-up effect. The total effect is negative for most …
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What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … heterogenous firms, producers choose to import or purchase domestically varieties of intermediate inputs. Imports affect firm … varieties imported. Our results suggest that the role of imports is both statistically and economically significant. Imports are …
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Open-loop Nash extraction plans of exhaustible resource producers (in which producers take the plans of others as given) are time-consistent, but the normal specification of the open-loop import plans of countries with market power (in which countries take the import tariffs of other importers...
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We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or...
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