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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 … trade prior to the crisis are hit by the recession earlier than other products. -- China ; exports collapse ; speed …
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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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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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We examine the supply-side characteristics - unskilled labor, imported input intensity, dependence on inputs from China … between exporter and importer countries. Higher reliance on foreign inputs, on China as input supplier, on unskilled labor and …
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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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Using annual data for the period 1992 - 2012, this paper examines trade flows between China and its main trade partners … in China's trade patterns. The analysis is based on both economic indicators and the estimation of a gravity model, and … fixed effect vector decomposition (FEVD) technique. The findings confirm the significant change in China's trading structure …
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China during 2020. We find that a country's own Covid-19 deaths and lockdowns significantly reduced its imports from China …-19 deaths in the main trading partners of a country (excluding China) induces more imports from China, partially … are evaluated at their 2020 mean is, on average, a reduction of nearly 10% in imports from China. There is also …
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What do state-owned enterprises (SOEs) do? How do they respond to market incentives? Can we expect substantial efficiency gains from trade liberalization in economies with a strong presence of SOEs? Using a new dataset of Vietnamese firms we document a set of empirical regularities...
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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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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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