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. Using China and the USA as control groups it is found that the Fukushima trade cost shock reduced the average number of …
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by one firm - in Germany. Combined data for trade transactions and for characteristics of a representative large sample … share of intra-good trade in total trade was some 17 percent in Germany in 2012. Intra-good trade matters. This share …
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firms to engage in cross-border transactions infrequently. Empirical models show that for Germany the frequency of …
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destination countries are related to differences in the distance between Germany and the countries of destination, differences in …
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This note uses the newly available Exporter and Importer Dynamics Database for Germany to investigate the links between … trade dynamics and trade costs. It shows results for the dynamics of Germany’s goods trade as a whole, and for trade with … and characteristics of these countries (distance to Germany, difficulty of foreign trade, and market size) on the other …
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This paper provides the first empirical evidence on the link between the number of foreign markets (where a market is defined as the combination of one traded good and one country traded with) a firm is active on and its profitability. We find that in German manufacturing industries the...
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This paper uses information on more than 160 million export and import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 to document the decisive role of multi-market traders that are active on many foreign markets, where a market is defined as a combination of a good traded and a country traded...
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This paper uses information on import transactions by German firms from 2009 to 2012 merged with information on characteristics of the importers taken from surveys by the Statistical Offices to document that a large share of importers engage in multiple import sourcing by importing the same good...
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in manufacturing firms from East Germany and West Germany. It documents that these margins do still differ in 2010, 20 … years after the re-unification of Germany. West German firms outperform East German firms at all four margins of exports … West Germany compared to East Germany. …
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