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We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost of primary inputs. We show how to aggregate plant-level data to this measure and how to use plant-level data to decompose our measure into technical efficiency and reallocation...
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Using transactions-level customs data from Colombia, we study firm-specific export patterns over the period 1996 … previous year. These new exporters tend to be extremely small in terms of their overall contribution to export revenues, and … most do not continue exporting in the following year. Hence export sales are dominated by a small number of very large and …
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As the exchange rate, foreign demand, production costs and export promotion policies evolve, manufacturing firms are … continually faced with two issues: Whether to be an exporter, and if so, how much to export. We develop a dynamic structural model … of export supply that characterizes these two decisions and estimate the model using plant-level panel data on Colombian …
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Even though Australia has experienced frequent and large commodity export price shocks like the Third World, it seems …
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We investigate and compare countries' export growth based on their performance at the extensive and intensive export … export markets but shortly exit when it learns its per- period fixed costs. We apply this insight to disaggregated export … data and confirm that indeed most export relationships are very short lived. We then show that the survival issue is a …
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. While the substantial presence of FIEs has contributed greatly to the recent export-led growth of China, an important …
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We take a first pass at quantifying the magnitudes of debt relief achieved through default and restructuring in two distinct samples: 1979-2010, focusing on credit events in emerging markets, and 1920-1939, documenting the official debt hangover in advanced economies that was created by World...
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the export sector. We then estimate this model using pooled data on four pollutants over ten years. Econometric results …
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We find that Chinese trade flows respond to economic activity and relative prices - as represented by a trade weighted exchange rate - but the relationships are not always precisely or robustly estimated. Chinese exports are generally well-behaved, rising with foreign GDP and decreasing as the...
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This paper uses international trade data to examine the effects of climate shocks on economic activity. We examine panel models relating the annual growth rate of a country's exports in a particular product category to the country's weather in that year. We find that a poor country being 1...
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