We investigate how the coronavirus pandemic affected the demand for online food shopping services using data from the … largest agri-food e-commerce platform in Taiwan. We find that an additional confirmed case of COVID-19 increased sales by 5 … coverage and online content. Because Taiwan did not impose a stay-at-home order, the demand for online food shopping may be …

where this discrepancy between the short- and long-run elasticities is due to frictions in distribution. Goods need to be … combined with a local non-traded input, distribution capital, which is good specific. Home and foreign goods may be close … substitutes, but if distribution capital is slow to adjust then agents cannot shift their consumption in the short run following a …

moving from a Pareto to a lognormal distribution allows the Melitz model to match the role of the intensive margin in the EDD …. We use likelihood methods and the EDD to estimate a generalized Melitz model with a joint lognormal distribution for firm …

to make its distribution network in both space and time. Indivisibilities are found to create significant scale economies … in distribution …

This paper presents new annual estimates of U.S. production of pig iron and imports of pig iron products dating back to … role of the tariff in fostering the industry's early development. Domestic pig iron production is found to be highly … sensitive to changes in import prices. Although import price fluctuations had a much greater impact on U.S. production than …

productivity across sectors exhibits weak correlation. While previous work examined production complementarity, our analysis … production and a low marginal cost of replication, sectors can share the cost to forecast their sector-specific productivity …

The strength of contract enforcement determines how firms source inputs and organize production. Using microdata on … Indian manufacturing plants, we show that production and sourcing decisions appear systematically distorted in states with … of input use. The equilibrium organization of production and the network structure of input-output linkages arise …

production. At the same time United States experienced a quot;transportation revolutionquot;, a key component of which was the …