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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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On the Persistence of the China Shock
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Abstract We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing...
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Firm-to-Firm Trade : Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel; Kramarz, Francis - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefitted overall, those competing most directly with imports … exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative …
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The Margins of Trade
Eaton, Jonathan - 2019
We introduce quality differentiation and an extensive margin of products into a standard quantitative, general equilibrium model of international trade. Both the quality and the quantity of a product play a role in its contribution both to consumption and to production. The framework allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480070
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Dominant Currencies : How Firms Choose Currency Invoicing and Why it Matters
Amiti, Mary - 2020
exports and imports, and the implications of this choice for exchange rate pass-through into prices and quantities. We derive …, small non-importing firms tend to price their exports in euros (producer currency) and exhibit complete exchange-rate pass …-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482146
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The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade
Ahn, JaeBin - 2010
census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462946
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China's Exporters and Importers : Firms, Products and Trade Partners
Manova, Kalina - 2009
about firm heterogeneity in trade. First, the bulk of exports and imports are captured by a few multi-product firms that … transact with a large number of countries. Second, the average importer imports more products than the average exporter exports … the growth in Chinese exports between 2003-2005 was driven by deepening and broadening of trade relationships by surviving …
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Concording U.S. Harmonized System Categories Over Time
Pierce, Justin R. - 2009
This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time; describes the concordances we construct for 1989 to 2004; and provides Stata code that can be used to construct similar concordances for arbitrary beginning and ending years from 1989...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463810
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The Margins of U.S. Trade (Long Version)
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2009
U.S. trade statistics to provide a broad overview of how the margins of trade contribute to variation in U.S. imports … and exports across trading partners, types of trade (i.e., arm's-length versus related-party) and both short and long time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463985
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Firms in International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465600