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 …

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 …

comparable estimates of vertical specialization as reflected in the imported content of exports in Argentina. Drawing on the 1997 … input-output matrix for Argentina, the authors estimate that the imported content of the country?s exports is about 14 ….5 percent of total exports, lower than for other emerging economies. They also provide estimates of imported content for more …

the level and composition of imports. In this setting, the paper finds evidence that the expected median number of days … evidence that the reforms favored imports from preferential trading partners, especially the European Union. There are also …-oil imports produces a reform-induced trade cost savings estimate of approximately US$12 million in 2012 …

imports. These findings are important, as recent studies point toward a significant positive effect of imported inputs on …

imports from two groups of countries supplying the same product: those that are named in the petition and those that are not …. The same decomposition can be applied to products quite similar to the imports in question, but not subject to a petition … persistent positive relative supply shock favors imports from named countries. Second, a negative demand shock hits imports from …

the case with exports, use of imported intermediate inputs is much higher at the extensive and intensive margins in small … relative to large countries. The results for imported inputs are comparable in magnitude with those for exports …