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The Impact of Trade Agreements on World Export Prices

Flach, Lisandra - 2018

export price data combined with data on 32 WTO (World Trade Organization) accessions by developing countries and hundreds of … increase in export prices of differentiated goods. For WTO, this effect is captured by the developing countries that were … particular, we find that PTAs with provisions on investments are associated with higher export prices. The results are consistent …

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The Dynamics of Comparative Advantage

Hanson, Gordon H. - 2015

This paper characterizes the dynamic empirical properties of country export capabilities in order to inform modelling … heavy-tailed distribution of industry export capabilities that is approximately log normal and whose shape is stable across … productivities. We establish that mean reversion in export capability, rather than indicative of convergence in productivities or …

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Quality and the Great Trade Collapse

Chen, Natalie - 2015

We explore whether the global financial crisis has had heterogeneous effects on traded goods differentiated by quality. Combining a dataset of Argentinean firm-level destination-specific wine exports with quality ratings, we show that higher quality exports grew faster before the crisis, but...

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Imported-Input Trade Liberalization and Firms' Export Performance in China : Theory and Evidence

Fan, Haichao - 2016

impacts include changes in the probability of entry into the export market, the fraction of firms that export and the share of … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …

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Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Kerr, William - 2019

. The instrumented elasticity of export growth on the intensive margin with respect to the exporter's productivity growth is …

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Resource Windfalls, Macroeconomic Stability and Growth : The Role of Political Institutions

Arezki, Rabah - 2011

We use a new dataset on non-resource GDP to examine the performance of commodity-exporting countries in terms of macroeconomic stability and economic growth in a panel of up to 129 countries during the period 1970-2007. Our main findings are threefold. First, we find that overall government...

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Why are Firms that Export Cleaner? International Trade and CO2 Emissions

Forslid, Rikard - 2014

This paper develops a model of trade and CO2 emissions with heterogenous firms, where firms make abatement investments and thereby have an impact on their level of emissions. The model shows that investments in abatements are positively related to firm productivity and firm exports. Emission...

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Cultural Integration and Export Variety Overlap Across Countries

Egger, Peter H. - 2014

This paper assesses the role of a larger degree of common language use between the populations of two countries on the so-called extensive product margin of trade. We focus on the overlap of products exported or imported between any pair of countries. The results suggest that the effect of...

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Export or Merge? Proximity vs. Concentration in Product Space

Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2014

This paper proposes a proximity-concentration tradeoff in product space as a determinant of horizontal foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms that enter a foreign market by exporting are able to capture consumer surplus from introducing a differentiated product with characteristics that the...

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Offshoring, Exporting, and Jobs

Groizard, José Luis - 2014

differentiated goods. Allowing differentiated-good firms to export creates an additional channel through which a reduction in the …

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