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The Connection between Imported Intermediate Inputs and Exports: Evidence from Chinese Firms
Swenson, Deborah L.; Feng, Ling; Li, Zhiyuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
We use data on Chinese manufacturing firms to study the connection between individual firm imports and firm export … of their exports and increased their export scope, though the magnitude of the effects differed by import source, firm … non-OECD countries generated larger firm export improvements, that private Chinese firms derived larger benefits from …
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Exporting and Firm Performance: Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis
Park, Albert; Yang, Dean; Shi, Xinzheng; Jiang, Yuan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct … outcomes. We find that firms whose export destinations experience greater currency depreciation have slower export growth, and … that export growth leads to increases firm productivity and other firm performance measures. Consistent with "earning …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005778908
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A Structural Approach to Identifying the Sources of Local-Currency Price Stability
Goldberg, Pinelopi; Hellerstein, Rebecca - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007
The inertia of the local-currency prices of traded goods in the face of exchange-rate changes is a well-documented phenomenon in International Economics. This paper develops a structural model to identify the sources of this local-currency price stability and applies it to micro data from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828568
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Technology and Trade
Grossman, Gene; Helpman, Elhanan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1994
We survey research on the relationship between technology and trade. We begin with the old literature, which treated the state of technology as exogenous and asked how changes in technology affect the trade pattern and welfare. Recent research has attempted to endogenize technological progress...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005828618
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How Often Are Propositions on the Effects of Customs Unions Theoretical Curiosa and When Should They Guide Policy?
Riezman, Raymond G.; Whalley, John; Abrego, Lisandro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper uses computational techniques to assess whether or not various propositions that have been advanced as plausible in the literature on Customs Unions (or other regional trade agreements) may actually hold. The idea is to make probabilistic statements as to whether propositions of...
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How Reasonable Are Assumptions Used in Theoretical Models?: Computational Evidence on the Likelihood of Trade Pattern Changes
Riezman, Raymond G.; Whalley, John; Abrego, Lisandro - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001
This paper seeks to contribute to discussion of the reasonableness of sometimes seemingly innocent assumptions used in theoretical trade models that the direction of trade is both predetermined for each good for each country and fixed. Here, we provide computational evidence as to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829323
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Trade and Search: Social Capital, Sogo Shosha, and Spillovers
Rauch, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1996
Japan's sogo shosha, and the ubiquity of government export promotion policies such as subsidized trade missions. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005829611
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Imperfect Contract Enforcement
Anderson, James; Young, Leslie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002
We model imperfect contract enforcement when repudiators and their victims default to spot trading. The interaction between the contract and spot markets under improved enforcement can exacerbate repudiation and reduce contract execution, harming all traders. Improved contract execution benefits...
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New Measures of Port Efficiency Using International Trade Data
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Wilson, Wesley W. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
As the clearinghouses for a major portion of the world's rapidly increasing international trade flows, ocean ports and the efficiency with which they process cargo have become an ever more important topic. Yet, there exist very little data that allows one to compare port efficiency measures of...
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Industrial Groupings and Strategic FDI: Theory and Evidence
Blonigen, Bruce A.; Ellis, Christopher J.; Fausten, Dietrich - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2000
We show that industrial ownership structures, such as keiretsu groupings in Japan, may significantly impact firms' incentives to engage in FDI. While the previous literature has mainly focused on the cost of capital advantages enjoyed by keiretsu firms, this paper examines two relatively...
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