Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade …-Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in 2005 is used to assess whether apparel export expansions survived the erosion of preferences. To find a … East Africa the recent export growth was driven by new entrants rather than incumbent firms whose competitiveness might …

-destination pairs, we show that increased Chinese import protection in the US has a significant positive impact on Mexican firms' trade …-intensive manufacturing industries. The nature of the impact of the heightened Chinese import tariffs on GVC firms' sourcing suggests a rise … product offerings of Mexican GVC firms in response to the heightened Chinese import protection in the US, suggesting increased …

non-cooperative policies within a single framework. First, we compare the elasticity of trade flows to import tariffs and … in import tariffs by 1 percentage point reduces imports by around 1.4 percent. Hence the two instruments are not …

that matches cartel investigations with trade data at the product level. We then estimate the world import price and … higher world import prices and lower quantities during cartel periods, and to induce the establishment of a cartel. The …

measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to … buffer processing shocks. Based on this theory, we employ detailed data on import processing dates, instrumental variables …, and firm-product-origin level import data to estimate import processing costs. Evaluated at the median, import processing …