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Global payment disruptions and firm-level exports
Haas, Ralph de; Kirschenmann, Karolin; Schultz, Alison - 2022
substitute foregone exports with higher domestic sales. As a result, total firm revenues and employment shrink. These findings …
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US trade policy and the US dollar
Khalil, Makram; Strobel, Felix - 2021
offsetting effects from the exchange rate,we use detailed product data on unit values of manufacturing imports and document that … that offsetting effects on the newly imposed tariffs were substantial. …
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The impact of US tariffs against China on US imports : evidence for trade diversion?
Meinen, Philipp; Schulte, Patrick; Cigna, Simone; … - 2019
negative direct effect of US tariffs on US imports from China, but (2) do not find evidence for significant short-run trade … covering monthly product-level information on US imports from 30 countries for the period January 2016 until May 2019, we …
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A structural quantitative analysis of services trade de-liberalization
Blank, Sven; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2018
This paper suggests a quantifiable multi-sector-multi-country economic model of goods and services production and consumption. It calibrates overall (variable and fixed) costs to market-specific sales by sector and decomposes these costs into observable and unobservable components. In an...
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Trade in services and innovation
Krieger, Bastian; Trottner, Fabian - 2024
We study the implications of services trade for firm innovation. Using a quasi-experimental shift-share design, we find that access to foreign knowledge-related services improves the innovativeness of domestic firms and complements their indigenously sourced R&D. To confront this evidence, we...
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The impact of the introduction of the Euro on firms' expectations concerning export behavior, product innovation and foreign competition : an empirical assessment of the German bus...
Kaiser, Ulrich; Müller, Claudia - 1998
This paper analyses the degree to which firms expect to be able to enter new markets, to develop new products and to contend with new foreign competition after the introduction of the Euro. Panel data taken from a quarterly business survey in the service sector are used for the empirical...
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Revisiting the trade-creating effects of non-tariff barriers
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Teti, Feodora - 2023
Modern regional trade agreements focus on promoting bilateral exchange mostly by lowering non-tariff barriers to trade. But do existing regional trade agreements actually deliver what they promise? This paper argues that existing results in the literature are upward biased because of measurement...
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Missing tariffs
Teti, Feodora - 2023
Many studies use tariffs to measure changes in trade policy. This paper shows that standard sources for tariffs suffer … from substantial measurement error due to misreporting and the resulting false imputation: Countries fail to report tariffs … every year and missing data are more prevalent for preferential than for most favored nation (MFN) tariffs. WITS, the main …
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The determinants of service imports : the role of cost pressure and financial constraints
Biewen, Elena; Harsch, Daniela; Spies, Julia - 2012
recent crisis. Making use of new micro-level data on service imports of German multinationals from 2002-2008, we assess the … start to import services from abroad if they are under cost pressure. By contrast, firms intensify existing service imports … crisis, did not have any significant effect on service imports. These results are in line with the argument that the …
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