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Export Take-Offs and Acceleration : Unpacking Cross-Sector Linkages in the Evolution of Comparative Advantage
Bahar, Dany - 2019
The transition into non-traditional export activities attracts important policy and academic attention. Using … international trade data, we explore how alternative linkages relate to the take-off and acceleration of export industries … labor. Technology has a predictive power depending on the specification used. We consistently find, however, that export …
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Firm Exports, Foreign Ownership, and the Global Financial Crisis
Eppinger, Peter; Smolka, Marcel - 2021
The exceptional export performance of foreign-owned firms is a well-established stylized fact, but the underlying …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013251264
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Firm-to-Firm Trade : Imports, Exports, and the Labor Market
Eaton, Jonathan; Kortum, Samuel S.; Kramarz, Francis - 2022
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...
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German Firms in International Trade : Evidence from Recent Microdata
Fauth, Matthias; Jung, Benjamin; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2023
information on the export and import value by firm, country, product and year for the period 2011-2019. Problems arising from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347018
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Globalization and State Capitalism: Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO
Baccini, Leonardo; Impullitti, Giammario; Malesky, Edmund J. - 2017
What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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Globalization in the Time of COVID-19
Sforza, Alessandro - 2020
of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 …
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Gravity Without Apology : The Science of Elasticities, Distance, and Trade
Carrère, Céline - 2020
Gravity as both fact and theory is one of the great success stories of recent research on international trade, and has featured prominently in the policy debate over Brexit. We first review the facts, noting the overwhelming evidence that trade tends to fall with distance. We then introduce some...
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Firms and Economic Performance : A View from Trade
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - 2019
We use transaction-level US import data to compare firms from virtually all countries in the world competing in a single destination market. Guided by a simple theoretical framework, we decompose countries. market shares into the contribution of the number of firm-products, their average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892143
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Import Processing and Trade Costs
Carballo, Jerónimo; Graziano, Alejandro; Schaur, Georg; … - 2021
Trade facilitation policy focuses on accelerated and transparent shipment processing to reduce trade costs. A common measure to evaluate processing frictions is the time it takes to import. In this paper we translate import processing times to costs. Our theory considers that shipment processing...
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The Trade Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel; Shi, Huimin - 2021
China during 2020. We find that a country’s own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …
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