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 … 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 …

Using highly disaggregated firm-level customs transaction data for imports and exports in Peru over the 2000 …-2012 period, this paper explores the relationship between imports of intermediate inputs and firm export performance. The paper …, faster export growth, greater diversification of export markets, and higher quality exports (as measured by relative unit …

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 …

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 …