arising from common shocks and network effects. Using monthly grain prices for 1740-1820 our analysis uncovers a secular … process of market disintegration in 221 prefectures of Qing China. Comparing our results with those for grain price panels …

This study provides evidence that the over-export of grains aggravated the severity of China's Great Famine. We collect … county-level data for the 1953-1965 period on death rates, birth rates, amounts of grain procured, output of different types … of grain, crop productivity, weather conditions, distance to railways, and the number of Chinese Communist Party (CCP …

endogenous, the LNG export benefit can drop by as much as 20-50% relative to the case of exogenous cost. …

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 …

convenience of accessing a larger export market in the South. The gap persists even after controlling for known sources of …

improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process …