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Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Recent research in international trade emphasizes the importance of firms' extensive margins for understanding overall patterns of trade as well as how firms respond to specific events such as trade liberalization. In this paper, we use detailed U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview...

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Shock Transmission Mechanism of the Economic Crisis in East Asia : An Application of International Input-Output Analysis

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Kuwamori, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

This paper investigates the impacts of the 2008 economic crisis on industries in East Asia. By using the updated Asian international input-output table for 2008, the paper attempts to identify the transmission mechanism and the magnitude of impact of the crisis on industries in East Asia. The...

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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen J. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

multi-product firms, offshoring, intra-firm trade and firm export market dynamics. …

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Myanmar's non-resource export potential after the lifting of economic sanctions : a gravity model analysis

Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013

disease". This study projects Myanmar's export potential by calculating counterfactual export values with an augmented gravity …

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Trade policies and trade mis-reporting in Myanmar

Kubo, Koji - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012

partner countries indicate deficits. Such discrepancies in mirror trade statistics are analyzed in connection with the â€˜export … export-tax-deducted export earnings. Under this policy, the recorded imports and exports of the private sector have been …-reporting in accordance with the supply and demand of the export earnings. …

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Survival of the Best Fit: Exposure to Low-Wage Countries and the (Uneven) Growth of U.S. Manufacturing Plants

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Schott, Peter K. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

This paper examines the role of international trade in the reallocation of U.S. manufacturing activity within and across industries from 1977 to 1997. It introduces a new measure of industry exposure to international trade, motivated by the Heckscher-Ohlin model, which focuses on where imports...

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Relative Wage Variation and Industry Location

Bernard, Andrew B.; Redding, Stephen; Schott, Peter K.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Relative wages vary considerably across regions of the United Kingdom, with skill-abundantregions exhibiting lower skill premia than skill-scarce regions. This paper shows that thelocation of economic activity is correlated with the variation in relative wages. U.K. regionswith low skill premia...

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Intra-regional trade between China, Japan, and Korea : before and after the financial crisis

Kuroiwa, Ikuo; Ozeki, Hiromichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010

East Asian economies have been heavily dependent on the U.S. and EU markets, especially for the export of final goods … of the East Asian economies which have adopted an export-led growth strategy. Such vulnerability needs to be addressed to …

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Wholesalers and Retailers in U.S. Trade (Long Version)

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

International trade models typically assume that producers in one country trade directly with final consumers in another. In reality, of course, trade can involve long chains of potentially independent actors who move goods through wholesale and retail distribution networks. These networks...

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Firms in International Trade

Bernard, Andrew B.; Jensen, J. Bradford; Redding, Stephen; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

Despite the fact that importing and exporting are extremely rare firm activities, economists generally devote little attention to the role of firms when discussing international trade. This paper summarizes key differences between trading and non-trading firms, demonstrates how these differences...

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