market countries we estimate that vertical specialization accounts for up to 30 percent of world exports, and has grown as …

-through. Second, we test and quantify the theoretical mechanisms using Belgian firm-product-level data with information on exports by … destination and imports by source country. We confirm that import intensity and market share are the prime determinants of pass …

. Aggregate data on prices and quantities of imports, outputs, and factor supplies are constructed from disaggregate sources. The … final goods prices. In contrast, imports have played a negligible direct role. …

With "home bias," a consumer differentiates between domestic goods and imports and tends to purchase the domestic …, thus making imports prohibitively expensive? Is there some inherent distrust of a foreign product? ; This paper probes the … enterprises, in addition to data on U.S. bilateral exports and domestic sales by host-country firms. ; I find that the apparent …

pricing (LCP) of imports is more prevalent, and on whether exchange rate pass-through rates are endogenous to a country …'s macroeconomic conditions. We provide cross-country and time series evidence on both of these issues for the imports of twenty …

from U.S. imports has been an important source of gains from trade over the last three decades (1972-2001). Using extremely … from variety growth in imports alone are 2.8 percent of GDP. …