In this paper, we examine the role of export promotion agencies (EPAs) in promoting exports from Japan and Korea …

The literature has revealed the positive impacts of free trade agreements (FTAs) on export prices by employing product …-level trade data. This paper empirically examines the impacts of FTAs on import prices at the firm level. We focus on firm …-level imports in China from ASEAN countries by employing China’s firm-product-level trade data. As a result, controlling for firm …

exchange and imports. First, foreign exchange controls prevented replacement of the negotiated transactions of foreign exchange … with the bank intermediation. This hampered government interventions in the market. Second, import controls repressed … imports, aggravating excess supply of foreign exchange. Relaxation of administrative controls is necessary for moderating …

macro evidence, we first show that individual firms diversify their oil imports politically, even after controlling for … unobserved firm heterogeneity. We conjecture that the political pattern of oil imports from these individual firms is driven by … investigate heterogeneity in responses by matching transaction-level import data with firm-level worldwide reserves. Our results …

transport costs by using Philippine import data. This study addresses three specific questions. First, does distance really …

€™s apparel exports. This paper examines this impact with a comparison to Vietnam’s apparel industry. The industry’s prospects …

This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …

This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … agriculture causes both exports and manufacturing. Exports also cause both agricultural GDP and manufacturing GDP and any two … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and …

This paper examines the evolution of the variety of Mexico’s export goods using disaggregated trade data. Both the … econometric estimation analyses using the raw data and the one using an improved version of Feenstra and Kee's (2004, 2007 …) methodology proposed in this paper show that NAFTA membership does not enhance the variety of Mexico's export goods. This finding …