This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors …, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering … 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first finds evidence that the elasticity of manufacturing export volumes to …

The empirical evidence on within firm productivity improvements from exports has largely been understated because the … measures of revenue productivity used do not account for pricing heterogeneity across firms. Using a panel of Indian firms, the … reflect physical productivity. Within-firm productivity changes from export entry are computed using a difference …

disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports, the paper documents the progressive retreat of Argentine … anti-export bias and import substitution policies that sought unsuccessfully to develop the local industry. The paper shows … that exporters that import directly intermediate and capital goods have better export outcomes than other exporters …

related to import processing times at the border could impact downstream export dynamics. Exploiting a rich data set built on … export performance, as neither the mean nor the median time to import impacts survival … estimator to investigate how unpredictability in border clearance times for imports affects manufacturing firms' entry, exit …

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 …

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … production sharing since that time. The assessment in this paper, based on export data and simulation results on the ex ante …

Technological revolutions have increased the world's wealth to a level that was once unimaginable. They have done so …-income countries-which account for 80 percent of all LCT innovations and 70 percent of all LCT exports-to developing countries, where …