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Free trade or preferential trade areas (PTAs) allow importers who belong to the area to export to each other while paying zero or preferential tariffs as long as Rules of Origin (ROOs) are met. Meeting them is costly not only in terms of production costs but also in terms of documentation costs....
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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% of variation in exports is along the extensive margin --- a quantitative victory for the Melitz framework. The … remaining 50% on the intensive margin (exports per exporting firm) contradicts a special case of Melitz with Pareto …
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Almost Ideal gravity associates zero trade flows with variable and fixed trade cost variation in a flexible demand system. Latent trade shares between non-partners are inferred from the Tobit estimator applied to trade among 75 countries and 25 sectors in 2006. Latent Trade Bias (LTB) is the...
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We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We account for this fact by marrying elements of international trade and economic geography. We...
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. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …
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This paper investigates the effect of export shocks on innovation. On the one hand a positive shock increases market size and therefore innovation incentives for all firms. On the other hand it increases competition as more firms enter the export market. This in turn reduces profits and...
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Chinese electronics exports. Our key finding is that "missing pioneers" are a low-probability event for large countries, but …
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effects of expanding exports to increase support for the incumbent's party, and job insecurity from import competition to … incumbent vote shares, and increasing exports correlate with increasing vote shares for incumbents. These effects are large and …
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variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which …
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This paper generalizes the gross exports accounting framework, initially proposed by Koopman, Wang, and Wei (2014) for … a country's aggregate exports, to one at the sector, bilateral, and bilateral-sector levels. Such a generalization … requires a conceptual distinction between value added exports by forward and backward industrial linkages, and a non …
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