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Using firm-level data from France, we document that the shift of economic activity from manufacturing to services over … manufacturing firms that increasingly locate in suburban and rural areas. Motivated by these findings, we estimate a structural … strengthened for services but weakened for manufacturing. This divergence is a key driver of the urban bias but it dampens …
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Many studies have found that international borders represent large barriers to trade. But how do international borders compare to domestic border barriers? We investigate international and domestic border barriers in a unified framework. We consider a unique data set of exports from individual...
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We offer a new explanation as to why international trade is so volatile in response to economic shocks. Our approach combines the uncertainty shock idea of Bloom (2009) with a model of international trade, extending the idea to the open economy. Firms import intermediate inputs from home or...
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Trade data are typically reported at the level of regions or countries and are therefore aggregates across space. In this paper, we investigate the sensitivity of standard gravity estimation to spatial aggregation. We build a model in which initially symmetric micro regions are combined to form...
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