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Customs data reveal heterogeneity and granularity of relationships among buyers and sellers. A key insight is how more exports to a destination break down into more firms selling there and more buyers per exporter. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium model of firm-to-firm matching that...
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A large literature has documented an association between economic growth and export diversification. We study this … advantage. The decline of export concentration is associated with a chronic deficit in the balance of trade during the Belle …
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are able to identify both the Colombian importing firm and the foreign exporter in every Colombian import and export …
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rest of world. Most countries export products that complement the US and substitute China, and a subset operate along … downward-sloping supplies. Heterogeneity in responses, rather than specialization, drives export variation across countries …
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We study how international trade and the exporting decisions of establishments affect establishment creation over the business cycle in a general equilibrium model. The model captures two key features of establishment and exporter dynamics: i) new establishments start small and grow over time...
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It has been suggested that countries which export in especially risky sectors will experience higher output volatility …. This paper develops a measure of the riskiness of a country's pattern of export specialization, and illustrates its … countries whose comparative advantage in the risky sectors is not too strong will diversify their export structure to insure …
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and joint ventures trade more and import more products from more source countries, but export fewer products to fewer … international trade and the importance of foreign ownership for firms' export and import decisions …
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different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human … export structure. On the other hand, processing trade, foreign invested firms, and government-sponsored high-tech zones all …
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. First, the relationships between Japanese export levels and employment in foreign affiliates of Japanese MNCs are analyzed …, the paper examines the effects of the presence of affiliates of U.S. MNCs on Japanese export levels. And third, it …
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that changes in various extensive margins (new markets, new goods) account for over 30 percent of export growth over this …-level characteristics interacting with destination-specific characteristics. We confirm that export growth for "new" products was stronger …
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