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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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to the role of exports as a stimulus for economic growth. Yet their analyses have been handicapped by reliance on one or … present new comprehensive export measures for the middle colonies. We find that aggregate exports in constant prices grew very …
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Japanese exports between 1880 and 1910 increased massively in volume, changed composition, and shifted away from … new disaggregated data set of the bilateral-product level exports for the universe of Japanese trade partners, we find …
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Persistent differences in interest rates across countries account for much of the profitability of currency carry trade strategies. "Commodity currencies'' tend to have high interest rates while low interest rate currencies belong to exporters of finished goods. This pattern arises in a...
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simple evidence consistent with the existence of a link between the consumption of fruit and vegetables and high well … portions of fruit and vegetables. The pattern is remarkably robust to adjustment for a large number of other demographic …
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inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus … are important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also suggests that the incidence of exports within industries … underlying industry and country characteristics that explain skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are …
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In this paper we have constructed a theoretical model in which Asian firms maximize their profit, competing with Japanese and US firms in their markets. The duopoly model is used to determine export prices and volumes in response to the exchange rate fluctuations vis-…-vis the Japanese yen and...
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Are foreign production and exports substitutes or complements? The continuing globalization of production makes the … effect between affiliate production and exports with Japanese automobile parts for the U.S. market. I also test for and find …
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role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed …
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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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