Are U.S. exports different from China's exports? If so, how? This paper attempts to answer this question, focusing on … the exports of China and the United States are similar in terms of variety. More than 85 percent of U.S. export products … to Japan are commonly exported from China. However, U.S. exports are different from China's exports in terms of quality …

It has been suggested that countries whose exports are in especially risky sectors will experience higher output … features across countries and over time. The exercise reveals large cross-country differences in the risk content of exports …. This measure is strongly correlated with the volatility of terms-of-trade, total exports, and output, but does not exhibit …

This paper explores the role of financial factors in the 2008-9 collapse of U.S. imports and exports. Using highly … disaggregated international trade data, we examine whether the cross-sectoral variation in how much imports or exports fell during …

disaggregated quarterly and monthly data on U.S. imports and exports to shed light on the anatomy of this collapse. We find that the … would be predicted by a simple import demand relationship. In a sample of imports and exports disaggregated at the 6-digit … imports and exports. We also find support for compositional effects: sectors with larger reductions in domestic output had …