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 …

estimator to investigate how unpredictability in border clearance times for imports affects manufacturing firms' entry, exit …

improved macroeconomic stability that supported higher spending and therefore imports. Since then, the negative effect of …

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 …

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 … shows that greater use, variety, and quality of imported intermediate inputs is significantly correlated with higher exports …

several economic challenges, including falling exports, chronic foreign currency shortages, as well as a slow pace of … stimulates exports in general and manufacturing exports in particular, improves the trade and current account balances, and spurs … adjustments need to take into account the increase in the cost of capital imports and debt burden …

exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external leverage measuring the impact of the country's use of external resources …, and (iii) a domestic response measuring the impact of the country's imports on its domestic income. This decomposition …-oriented growth agenda that puts a premium on raising exports and making countries more attractive to people, not just capital. The …