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automobile exports to France, we demonstrate that the importer's currency tends to be chosen in intra-firm export invoicing based …
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Does international trade affect the growth of cities, and vice versa? Assembling disaggregate data for four countries, we document a novel stylized fact: Export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We rationalize this fact by...
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This paper argues that the theoretical foundations for the gravity equation are general, while the empirical performance of the gravity equation is specific to the type of goods examined. Most existing theory for the gravity equation depends on the assumption of differentiated goods. We show...
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We examine entry across 113 national markets in 16 different industries using a comprehensive data set of French manufacturing firms. The data are unique in indicating how much each firm exports to each destination. Looking across all manufacturers: (1) Firms differ substantially in export...
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import tariff. We analyze the determinants of the cross-country distribution of trade volumes, such as size, tariffs and … estimate the gains of a world-wide trade elimination of tariffs, using the theory to explain the magnitude of the gains as well … as the differential effect arising from cross-country differences in pre-liberalization of tariffs levels and country …
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Empirical studies of firms within industries consistently report substantial heterogeneity in measures of performance such as size and productivity. This paper explores the consequences of joint heterogeneity on the supply side (sellers) and the demand side (buyers) in international trade using...
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Tradeoffs between monetary wealth and fatal safety risks are summarized in the value of a statistical life (VSL), a measure that is widely used for the evaluation of public policies in medicine, the environment, and transportation safety. This paper demonstrates the widespread use of this...
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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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two reported trade values should differ systematically only by transport costs, because the values reported by importers … include freight and insurance. But in practice, after controlling for distance and other standard trade costs, the remaining … gaps between importer- and exporter-reported trade vary systematically with GDP, tariffs and taxes, auditing standards …
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decline in import growth. We then construct measures of export exposure to import tariffs by linking tariffs paid by importing …
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