countries. We analyze a novel bank-level data set from Nepal, where a steady inflow of remittances has contributed to foreign …

Revenue Agency suggestions, we use in a VECM the time series of the concealed VAT base as a proxy for the size of “unreported …

provide a new quantitative welfare measure by dividing the manufacturing sector into import and export sub-sectors. We then … surprisingly, that the gains to the import sector are larger than the gains to the export sector. Moreover, the size and the …

. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or foreign suppliers, but with higher costs in the latter case. Due to fixed … the model with newly-compiled monthly aggregate U.S. import data and industrial production data going back to 1962, and …

We study the effect of import competition on workers’ mental distress. To this purpose, we source information on the … mental health of British workers from the British Household Panel Survey, and combine it with measures of import competition … in more than 100 industries over 2001-2007. We find an increase in import competition to have a positive, statistically …

Globalization has led to huge increases in import volumes, but the literature on import forecasting is still in its … infancy. We introduce the first leading indicator especially constructed for total import growth, the so-called Import Climate …. It builds on the idea that the import demand of the domestic country should be reflected in the expected export …

In recent years, manufacturing firms in the United States have faced increasing import competition from low …-2006 for US publicly-listed firms in the Compustat dataset. We find consistent evidence that Chinese import competition had a … instrument import competition in the US by using Chinese import penetration in the United Kingdom. Next we investigate this …

regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …