that one way things can get messy is via squandering new wealth, based on future resource revenues, on arms imports. In the … five years following a giant oil or gas discovery, arms imports increase by 25 percent. The effect is even larger, at 51 …

The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the … imports of intermediate inputs, and about 85 percent is explained by investment in research and development. The evidence …

disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports, the paper documents the progressive retreat of Argentine …

related to import processing times at the border could impact downstream export dynamics. Exploiting a rich data set built on … estimator to investigate how unpredictability in border clearance times for imports affects manufacturing firms' entry, exit …

sustaining relatively large current account deficits over the past 15 years. Using annual data from 1986 to 2017 and a jackknife …Turkey has moved rapidly from a current account that was relatively in balance up to the turn of the millennia, to … model-averaging estimator, the paper estimates the relationship between the current account balance and a set of …