Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while …

. Adverse impacts of import competition on manufacturing employment, overall employment-population ratios, and income per capita … in more trade-exposed U.S. commuting zones are present out to 2019. Over the full study period, greater import … that the China trade shock holds lessons for other episodes of localized job loss. Import competition from China induced …

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 …

exports and imports, and the implications of this choice for exchange rate pass-through into prices and quantities. We derive …-through into destination prices at all horizons. In contrast, large import-intensive firms tend to denominate their exports in …, small non-importing firms tend to price their exports in euros (producer currency) and exhibit complete exchange-rate pass …

census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many firms … their mode of export - either directly or indirectly through an intermediary. The model predicts that intermediaries will be …

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 … and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer …

This paper: outlines an algorithm for concording U.S. ten-digit Harmonized System export and import codes over time …

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 …