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interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … source country deviates from the reported import value in the destination country. Analyzing 4-digit product level data for …
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What has driven trade booms and trade busts in the past and present? We derive a micro-founded measure of trade frictions from leading trade theories and use it to gauge the importance of bilateral trade costs in determining international trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of...
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Trade costs are often cited as an important determinant of the volume of trade. This paper provides enough evidence to ascertain that today's trade issues in Northeast Asia go beyond the traditional mechanisms of tariffs, and include "behind-the-border" issues. By estimating a modified gravity...
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The external influence of scholarly activity has to date been measured primarily in terms of publications and citations, metrics that also dominate the promotion and grant processes. Yet the array of scholarly activities visible to the outside world are far more extensive and recently developed...
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export their goods and whether to use imported intermediates. The model highlights mechanisms whereby import policies affect … consistent with the key features of the data regarding productivity, exporting, and importing. We perform a variety of … counterfactual experiments to assess quantitatively the positive and normative effects of barriers to trade in import and export …
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. 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 …
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growth rates of importing countries play an important role in explaining how fast exports fall below the values of the same …
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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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endogenous, the LNG export benefit can drop by as much as 20-50% relative to the case of exogenous cost …
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equations, trade is more sensitive to trade costs if the exporting country only provides a small share of the destination … exporting country provides a small share of the destination country's imports. For other pairs, the currency union effect is …
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