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Exporting Through Intermediaries : Impact on Export Dynamics and Welfare

Kamali, Parisa - 2020

In many countries, a sizable share of international trade is carried out by intermediaries. While large firms tend to export to foreign markets directly, smaller firms typically export via intermediaries (indirect exporting). I document a set of facts that characterize the dynamic nature of...

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Quality Upgrading and Export Performance in the Asian Growth Miracle

Papageorgiou, Chris - 2020

We explore the contribution of product-quality upgrading to the export performance of six fast-growing Asian economies: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the changes in these countries' sectoral export shares...

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Spillover Effects of Exchange Rates : A Study of the Renminbi

Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

This paper estimates the impact of China's exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets … that a 10 percent appreciation of China's real exchange rate boosts on average a developing country's exports of a typical …

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Make in India : Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth?

Anand, Rahul - 2015

trade. This paper breaks new ground in analyzing India's exports by the technological content, quality, sophistication, and …

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Global Value Chains and Productivity : Micro Evidence from Estonia

Banh, Hang - 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented collapse in global economic activity and trade. The crisis has also highlighted the role played by global value chains (GVC), with countries facing shortages of components vital to everything from health systems to everyday household goods....

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Global Smartphones Sales May Have Peaked

Mongardini, Joannes - 2020

global trade may also be shifting in favor of services exports mostly from advanced economies …

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Are Capital Goods Tariffs Different?

Meleshchuk, Sergii - 2020

In this paper we demonstrate the importance of distinguishing capital goods tariffs from other tariffs. Using exposure to a quasi-natural experiment induced by a trade reform in Colombia, we find that firms that have been more exposed to a reduction in intermediate and consumption input or...

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Markups, Quality, and Trade Costs

Chen, Natalie - 2020

bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … smaller in magnitude for higher quality exports. We find strong support for the predictions of the model using a unique data … set of Argentinean firm-level wine exports combined with experts wine ratings as a measure of quality …

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Regional Growth Spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa

Arizala, Francisco - 2019

This paper documents the steady increase in intraregional trade in sub-Saharan Africa since 1980, links this rise to important growth spillovers in the region, and identifies the main source countries and those most vulnerable to the economic conditions of others. Estimates show that in the...

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Real Effective Exchange Rate and Trade Balance Adjustment : The Case of Turkey

Iossifov, Plamen K. - 2019

There is an ongoing debate in the literature on whether global trade flows have become disconnected from the large real effective exchange rate movements in the wake of the global financial crisis. The question has important policy implications for the role of exchange rates in supporting growth...

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