(2016) to compare different exchange rate policies, and empirically by estimating elasticities of imports and commodity … exports with respect to exchange rates using Papua New Guinean data. In the empirical part, using various econometric methods …, I find the statistically significant elasticities of commodity exports to real exchange rates. In the theoretical part …

than 4 percent of net food imports over a period of six years for the countries considered, although for some of the larger …

episodes from 1970-2009, we find that there is a sharp decline in a country’s imports in the year following a crisis-19 percent …, on average-and this decline is persistent, with imports recovering to their gravity-predicted levels only after 10 years …. In contrast, exports of the crisis country are not adversely affected, and they remain close to the predicted level in …

elasticities have increased as a result of structural changes in the economy. It finds that the high income elasticity of imports … and the responsiveness of exports to changes in world commodity prices, domestic absorption, and economic activity in …

. 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 …

provides an assessment of the drastic change in the geographical destination of Korean exports during the 1990s …