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Trade and labour standards : theory, new empirical evidence, and policy implications

Dehejia, Vivek Harsha; Samy, Yiagadeesen - 2002

effects of labour standards on export performance and foreign direct investment flows. Overall, our empirical results suggest …

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The collapse speed of China's exports in the 2008-2009 financial crisis

Jing, Ran - 2011

This paper studies the performance of China's exports during the 2008-2009 financial crisis. It focuses on the speed at which China's exports were hit by this downturn. Product-country monthly exports data is utilized. It is found that GDP growth rates of importing countries play an important...

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Cultural integration and export variety overlap across countries

Egger, Peter; Lassman, Andrea - 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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Quality and the great trade collapse

Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 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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How resilient was trade to Covid-19?

Bas, Maria; Fernandes, Ana; Paunov, Caroline - 2022

We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China, production complexity - that determine different potential vulnerabilities of traded products to the COVID-19 pandemic. Relying on monthly exports at the product level by all...

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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 …

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Does innovation cause exports? : evidence from exogenous innovation impulses and obstacles

Lachenmaier, Stefan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

exogenous to firms export performance. We find that innovation attributable to this variation leads to an increase of roughly 7 … percentage points in the export share of German manufacturing firms. The evidence is robust to several alternative specifications …

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Forecasting exports across Europe : what are the superior survey indicators?

Lehmann, Robert - 2019 - This version: September 6, 2019

branches to forecasting export growth across a multitude of European countries. Our pseudo out-of-sample analyses reveal that … indicators are superior: the Export Climate, the Production Expectations of domestic manufacturing firms, the Industrial … forecasters in order to choose the best-performing indicators and thus increasing the accuracy of export forecasts. …

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The elasticity of trade : estimates and evidence

Simonovska, Ina; Waugh, Michael E. - 2011

Quantitative results from a large class of international trade models depend critically on the elasticity of trade with respect to trade frictions. We develop a simulated method of moments estimator to estimate this elasticity from disaggregate price and trade-flow data using the Ricardian...

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Gravity estimation of the intensive and extensive margins of trade : an alternative procedure with alternative data

Flam, Harry; Nordström, Håkan - 2011

Helpman, Melitz and Rubinstein (2008) derive gravity equations to estimate effects of trade barriers on the intensive and extensive margins of trade. They exploit the frequency of zeros in aggregate bilateral trade data to identify effects on the extensive margin and to obtain controls for firm...

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