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Growth and Risk : A View from International Trade
Krishna, Pravin; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ma, Lin; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The mean and the variance of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226112
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Trade Growth, Production Fragmentation, and China's Environment
Dean, Judith M. - 2008
present evidence that (1) China's industrial output has become cleaner over time, (2) China's exports have shifted toward … relatively cleaner, highly fragmented sectors, and (3) the pollution intensity of Chinese exports has fallen dramatically between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464787
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The Intensive Margin in Trade
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
. 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480847
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Latent Exports : Almost Ideal Gravity and Zeros
Anderson, James E. - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482496
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Cities, Productivity, and Trade
Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482527
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The Impact of Exports on Innovation : Theory and Evidence
Aghion, Philippe - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453117
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Sizing up Market Failures in Export Pioneering Activities
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2017
Chinese electronics exports. Our key finding is that "missing pioneers" are a low-probability event for large countries, but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453821
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Learning to Use Trade Agreements
Krishna, Kala - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659997
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Contractual Versus Generic Outsourcing : The Role of Proximity
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2005
. We confirm these predictions using data for ordinary versus processing exports from Chinese provinces to destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466786
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Currency Unions and Trade : A Post-EMU Mea Culpa
Glick, Reuven - 2015
variety of empirical gravity models to estimate the currency union effect on trade and exports, using recent data which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457134