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. We find that lower tariffs and higher import volumes would have been particularly beneficial for Japan during the period …
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method of estimation, to correction for errors in variables and for the deletion of outliers. I finally argue that future …
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through the creation and import of new varieties. In this framework, international trade increases economic output through two …
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allow for different import intensities for different components of aggregate demand (specifically, consumption versus …
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This paper presents an endogenous growth model of an open economy in which the growth rate of income is higher if foreign capital goods are used relatively more than domestic capital goods for the production of capital stock. Empirical results, using cross country data for the period 1960-85,...
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We study the distribution of economic activity, as proxied by lights at night, across 250,000 grid cells of average area 560 square kilometers. We first document that nearly half of the variation can be explained by a parsimonious set of physical geography attributes. A full set of country...
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We develop a simple model of the choice between exploiting a technology in another country via export and via direct …
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surprisingly unstable: Export ranks are not persistent, and new top products and destinations replace old ones. Measurement error … of this instability: Only 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in comparative advantage … (source-by-product factors), while another 20% of the variation in export growth can be explained by variation in bilateral …
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This paper looks at the patterns of causation between income, export, import, and investment growth for 25 developing …
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Countries' geographic characteristics have important effects on their trade, and are plausibly uncorrelated with other determinants of their incomes. This paper therefore constructs measures of the geographic component of countries' trade and uses those measures to obtain instrumental variables...
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