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We present a gravity model that accounts for multilateral resistance, firm heterogeneity and country-selection into trade, while accommodating asymmetries in trade flows. A new equation for the proportion of exporting firms takes a gravity form, such that the extensive margin is also affected by...
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LAC exports. China's retreat from certain markets, due to the ongoing rebalancing process, could open new opportunities … effect on LAC's GDP and exports in the long run, but this effect is small and uneven across countries, leading to winners and …
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. Using the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) featuring firm-level exports from 50 countries, we find that around … 50 percent of variation in exports is along the extensive margin-a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50 percent on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …
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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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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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Literature on whether government spending crowds out or crowds in the private sector is large, but still without an unambiguous conclusion. Using firm-level data from Ukraine, this paper provides a granular empirical investigation to disentangle the impact of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on...
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fluctuations due to product quality. Our model shows that the elasticity of demand perceived by exporters decreases with a real … depreciation and with quality, leading to more pricing-to-market and to a smaller response of export volumes to a real depreciation … for higher quality goods. We test the proposed theory using a highly disaggregated Argentinean firm-level wine export …
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erect barriers-banning imports or exports of cyber technologies-and in effect promote decoupling or deglobalization. A well … paper is that banning exports can also be optimal, and in some cases superior, as it prevents technological diffusion to a …
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We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade fragmentation scenarios in a new multi-country, multi-sector,...
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understanding of European exports: where exports values are created, the role of vertical supply links in export growth, what is …
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