currency debt maturity structure around a large depreciation in Colombia, we show that debt revaluation compresses imports due … to higher delinquencies and interest rates, while exports are unaffected. Natural and financial hedging successfully mute … switching channel. Pricing exports in the dominant vs. producer currency mutes the effect of DCF on trade. …

increase in French exports to the new members. While workers benefited 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 …

temperature. We find that precipitation has significant nonlinear effects on food CPI inflation. The coefficient of food CPI … find that temperature has no additional explanatory power for food CPI inflation over and above that of precipitation. We …

We combine exogenous variation in temperature at the county-day level in the U.S. with daily time use data to examine … the effect of temperature on joint time use. We show that low temperatures reduce time spent with friends but increase … evidence of the effect of temperature on joint time use being location-dependent. We rationalize this finding using a model in …

exacerbates the effect of temperature on violence. We use two identification strategies that exploit daily variation in … temperature and variation in gun control policies between and within states. Our findings suggest that more prohibitive concealed … carry laws attenuate the temperature-homicide relationship. Additional results suggest that restrictions primarily decrease …

this sector have the ability to deliver cement either from domestic plants or from imports. Since cement is costly to … transport via land, the difference in marginal cost between local production and imports varies across local markets. The … marginal cost of imports is lower in areas with access to a sea port, decreasing the relative value of investing in local …

This paper explores the effect of natural resource dependence on market concentration of imports. Using a new panel … dependence is associated with larger market concentration of imports and with higher tariffs. The effect on the concentration of … imports is found to be more pronounced for exporters of 'point-based' resources, imports of primary and consumption goods than …